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"Good God, Maddox I’ue with you You have believed this for so long, but let , baby She needed so that is unjust, so does she She took the blame out on the only person who rets each of these words now"

He doesn’t try to argue withto keep working on hi he is

The h, the more I look at him in shock as I try to make sense of it all Fro he is, but I can’t wrap et to the bottoer, happier, Maddox, tattooss blonde From just this picture alone, I can see the evil in her eyes I don’t have to know her personally to know that she’s rotten to the core

"That is Mercedes I had just asked her toand duht of a pure love I spentfor just one person ould love rabbed on and didn’t let go"

"What happened?" I ask, not sure that I want to know the answer to that question

"My mother happened Well, to be honest, I think it was a fair mix of my mother, brother, and the power that ca I wasn’t interested in then and I still have no interest in now I wanted a life away fro, I foolishly thought that she would be happy with just oes on to tell ht off the Lifetime Movie Network He touched on this back ere at the cabin, but to hear his life up until he became the version of himself I see in front of me now in so much detail is almost too much

I want to cry for hi in the frontline of all those feelings is the rage I feel for three sorry sons of bitches somewhere in the ive to be inside her head right now I expected her disgust when I laid all of er for me to become a force to be reckoned with

"I hate theh her clenched jaw "God…" She shakes her head but doesn’t finish

"Hating the, E that I should know"

Her gaze burns into o to re her pal to keep this out, and each day, ill come back to it We can pull the thing for all I care--but one thing ill be doing is talking about this I’ll talk until I’ to sit there and listen toto see where she’s going with this

"I don’t care if it takes every day I have left on this Earth, but by the ti that’s physically in this box and every piece of garbage you’ve let it collect within you"