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"That doesn’t explain how that motherfucker’s handprints ended up all over your body"

I don’t argue with him; it doesn’t explain that But I also don’t knohat he’s going to do when I tell hied to put them off until I turned twenty-one Don’t ask ht I took the stage seeht for hiht until I was saved froht I came back He continues to claim his princess"

"The hell you say?"

I just nod my head and ood idea right now

"Don’t you dare leave this bed"

I turn and almost fall to my ass when he pulls me back to him

"He put his hands on you That bastard hurt you I’ll fucking kill him," he vows, and I don’t doubt that he means it

"No, you won’t"

"The hell you say!"

I rollhis to narrow "I’ht up to a lapse in judg, you can drop o home"

"Are you serious? You think for one second that I’ to hand-deliver you to your piece-of-shit parents and a fucking rapist!" he bellows

"That’s exactly what you’re going to do" I wiggle out of his hold and walk to the bathrooether and I can’t do it when he’s nearover my body and let my mind wander back to when I believed That seeo when it was really justthat it almost feels like some twisted kind of normal for us, but it isn’t fair to either of us to continue this tug-of-war

I can’t keep wishing for the impossible and he needs er-on Coop would be pissed if he knew that I went back to Syn I can’t help but feel like I’ve, in a sense, let him down He saved me froave his life for ht back into the fire

The grief I’ve felt over his death andback over me and I drop to my knees The water continues to beat overwith for weeks

I owe him for so much and I never would have been able to pay hied him and reminded him how thankful I was to have hi frustrated with hi like a jerk the day before Not many people saw his serious side, but I did He was yelling at et gest cheerleader, and it kills ain I’ll never feel his strong ar me after a hard day and the shadows of my past creep up on o"