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I wasn’t even looking at him anymore as I reflected on the last few years I kept"When I ith Daniel… it was the only way I could forget you Being lost with so to feel the hole in my heart at the reminder of what I’d walked away froreement" This was hard to talk about, but I kneanted and needed to hear it "We never had a real relationship or anything like that We’ve just been using each other to forget the bad things for a little while"

"He looked at you like you were ely soft

"He offered more Today"

"And what did you say?"

"He told o back to hi you don’t want to proly, all cried out "You’ve been nothing but cold to me, Jaxon Why on earth would I have stopped to think for a split second that Ito be content withcontent with Daniel then… then I can’t pass that up"

He opened hisin irritation, he pulled it out of his pocket and answered "What?" I watched hiht I’ed at otta go"

"What? Like that?"

"I can’t stay"

"This is more important Isn’t it?"

"I can’t stay," he repeated with finality That was the end of that

Shocked by the abrupt end to the conversation, I gritted my teeth and shook my head

He looked away frolued in his spot for a few seconds Then, without even a gli the door sharply on his way out

I was disappointed that whatever it was couldn’t have waited until we’d sorted things out But I didn’t want to make myself feel anyhts off and crawled into bed Whena half hour later, I rejected Daniel’s call

I wasn’t going to fool ive Daniel what he wanted, not after realizing how deeply in love I still ith Jaxon I hadn’t moved on from him one bit That cold, painful admission meant there was no way I could open my heart to anybody else As I closed oing to grow old and grey alone; because by how heavily anchored my heart was to Jaxon, I didn’t think I’d ever be able to move on

Thewaited a few agonizingly long hours, I’d given up on hoping he’d return to sleep next to , and because I was still so damn tired, I couldn’t be entirely sure if the warm arm around my waist was real or a conjured up hallucination

Cos I hastily turned around and my hopes were dashed when I saw the other side was empty and cold It didn’t even look like he’d slept there Being the creep that I was, I smelled the pillow and took in his scent that had entrenched itself in the fabric fro et the house done After changing into another predictable outfit that consisted plainly of jeans and a thin sweater, I went down stairs Lucinda was in the kitchen drinking a hot cup of coffee, looking groggy and tired, her norh the newspaper