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I sat on her lounge chair and fingered the hes into the sun because the scarring would only stand out more with a tan, but now it simply hat it was--another part of me like the freckles on my nose or the color of my eyes

"I don’t know," I answered honestly "And I don’t kno to talk to you about it You’reweird I can’t think about you tithout wanting to volasses up into her black hair "Leah, I love you like a sister What Wilder and I had was so long ago, two and a half years, and if I had to rate that relationship in importance in my life, it’s probably somewhere around a four, and that’s only because it led me to Landon" She winced, like even his naht he loved ades for me But that was the month of the X Games, and it was just too much, and when Wilder dropped the ultimatum, Landon chose theest time He was my ten, and then he was my zero What is Wilder to you?"

"He’s an eleven," I aduy isn’t exactly known for ether?"

"No He’s always made me feel like I’m the only one he notices" My eyes slid shut "But I don’t knoot here When I think of everything he did, how deep the plan went to get you on board, and then I think thatin that plan…I can’t breathe"

"I saw hi Maybe you were at first, but the way he begged you? If you were just a part of his plan, he wouldn’t still be after you Wilder never gets attached, he never begs, and he never apologizes--all of which he did for you His plan worked I’ to stay? You’re sure?" My voice pitched in excitement She’d offered already, but I had to be certain

"Yeah If you’re in, I’ him ruin this, too If that ged her, careless of her suntan oil seeping into my shirt "I’ve missed you so much"

Her arms closed around me "Same here I was kind of lost without you, and you were halfway across the world, getting lost" She laughed

"Yeah, but as crazy as this sounds, I feel kind of found, too And I knoas Paxton, pushingto do?"

"I can’t answer that You’ve done pretty damn well on your own, and honestly, if I’d been here to start with, I would have done everything in e mistake that would have been You know his--"the changes he’s brought in you are alad it happened this way"

"Me, too," I said "I just don’t kno to trust hi you have to decide No one else--not even Wilder--can make that choice for you But you and I both kno rare love is, and if you two have it, then fight for it Figure out the rest as you go along"

"And don’t look where it’s taking us? What happens after this trip is over?"