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I stared at Dallas When had my little brother turned into a complete dick?
"Don’t think that’s what happened," Steel said
I shook my head "No, it’s not" I then took another bite of chicken
"Okay, wait, you didn’t bang Hannah?" Dallas asked
My patience was running thin I decided to eat in ize That was better than this Lifting my plate in one hand with my mason jar of tea fir up to my room to escape my brothers’ inquisition
"You can’t take food to your rooive a fuck," I replied, sla it in place They’d follow me, or at least Dallas would try just to see how far he could pushin a low, ru tone I didn’t try to listen I sat down on the top step and finished et all evidence of it back to the kitchen before Moarden Of course, thatfrom Dallas I’d rather just deal with Moain, her words toher any type of pain I wished she’d understand that every time I pushed her back, every ti was being torn into shreds This wasn’t easy for me From the moment I found those letters in that box,I was drained of any joy and couldn’t be filled again The euilt I’d lived with for the past three years was gone, but the ache of losing Dixie was still there She wasn’t the last girl I’d been with, but she’d been the only one that mattered The only face I saw No one made me feel complete like she had No one made ht that maybe with time there would be someone else to take her place, but all I realized in the end was that once you’d found perfection, everything else paled by co from your soul
Dixie Monroe
WHILE STARING OUT the kitchen , I poured ht Not even a few seconds of it My guilt keptfair to Steel I’d known that before, but had let hiht I could forget Asher one day He thought we had a chance I had to stop letting him think that I cared about him, I wanted him to be loved the way he loved other people, couy and should have it all I was too fractured, too broken for hi him all this would not be easy I knew that noto try and stopor I’d continue hurting him forever He’d hate me, all the Suttons would, especially now on the heels of what happened with Bray and Scarlet, but I couldn’t just keep finding reasons to wait I had to do this now I had to end it so that he could ulps and I finished the cup I didn’t even taste it I’d drank it for the caffeine and the mental focus I needed for the task ahead What I had to do wouldn’t change anything with Asher After yesterday, I knew that He had decided that he could never be withhe didn’t lovedeeply
"You’re up early You don’t have to be at work for another two hours," Mo She searchedcoffee since five
"I couldn’t sleep," I replied, though I knew she knew that
She ca her chin on ht But you know that already"
Withouther, she kne it all and readTo let Steel go, be truthful about it all, and she’d been waiting all along for me to do that
"One day, there will be another et him, but you will heal and h I know it’s hard to see that now"
The idea of loving anyone elseas it was iht now "I don’t know about that," I replied sullenly