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I turned on the stool to face him fully It was tiirls were there during the five years I spent as your lapdog, loving you blindly, planning my future around you?"

"Cassie--"

"How Many?"

"I don’t know"

"More than five?" I pressed

"Look, it’s not important," he replied, nerves evident in his expression

"More than ten?" I hissed through clenched teeth

"We don’t need to rehash--"

"Answer my question, damn it!"

"I don’t know…fifteen, twenty, maybe more," he confessed, unable to look me in the eye "I lost track after the first few tied in the gut I shouldn’t have been surprised, but it was a huge nuirls

"Look," Mark said He grabbed my hand, and I ripped it away "I was a dumbass, and I should have told you, but--"

"Why did you even date me, then? What was the point when I obviously didn’tknow, all right? It just kept happening, and you were always so sweet, and I didn’t want to hurt your feelings"

My eyes greider I was stunned "You didn’t want to hurt s?" I all but yelled

"I know it sounds a little ,sounded "Mark, do me a favor and listen to yourself the next tiize to someone"

My phone went off and this tiht it toa mental list of which of my friends in this s to fucking kill him if you don’t tell him to leave!"

He wasn’t serious Before I could reply, I heard Caleb’s oing now!" he told Logan

"Get the hell off ainst the phone and a few grunts before Caleb’s unaffected, clear voice was there

"Hey, Cassie, you ht because I have three guys holding Logan back, and I’e"

With a puffed-out sigh, I shook rip I could talk to who Hilary rushing over

"We need to go," she de all right?" he asked, ignoring her and taking a drink of his beer

My shoulders lifted "Give us a minute, Hilary"

An explosive crash in the back startled lance in that direction, then at Hilary

"I don’t think you have a rabbed ed it into , but it’s a little late," I said to Mark "You tore my world apart--a fake world that I obviously created in ive you for that, and I don’t want to I’ry--I’ve just moved on The fact that I can sit here and listen to you tell h school and not break down crying proves that So the next time you see me, don’t come over I’m not--"