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Swear, she went to bed earlier than anyone I knew -- her ht was over -- and both were for hts dihed, "In another lifetiirl I would have asked for your favorite color Your favorite song I would have held your hand" I sighed and shoved my hands inyour hand"

CHAPTER SIX

Demetri

"FORGIVENESS…" MRS MURRAY cleared her throat, "Until you both can forgive each other, the addiction isn’t going to go away"

I snorted and looked down at my hands

"So?" She leaned forward "Alec?"

My brother tensed next to iveness And I have, but it doesn’t see"

There was an aard silence where I’ but I had nothing My da like a lunatic and all I could focus on was either getting high or finding soet lost in for a few ether as I waited for the clock to strike eight

"Deiven him?"

They made it sound so easy Like all I had to do was say ‘yes’ and butterflies would start fluttering out of my ass

But that wasn’t the case Because no ave him -- the hurt was still there

When I closed uilty face, I saw his

What type of brother does that? A high one That’s the answer Granted, Alec hadn’t touched drugs since -- which sucked if you askedthe onlyfelt so out of control that I wanted to scream Instead, I did what I always did I siven his take ti papers together "Drug test tomorrow" She handed us an appointment card "Please don’t be late"

One da to juiant ass inhale

"Thanks" Alec took the card while I sidestepped hi at the table banging her head against it

"Rough night, beautiful?"

Her head snapped up and I was suddenly so very thankful thatnot to be his usual friendly self Mine She was all mine I wanted those eyes, those lips, that body underneath s

And for the first tih -- I was focused on her