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I look up and then I see Marissa Just like I always drea in a field of flowers

"You should always be surrounded by roses If I’d had the ht you so around her head in circles before settling above her cheeks again "Finn, what are you talking about? Was Inot to wake you up"

Her words don’tmakes sense to me anymore The wo I’ve tried has saved her The woman I’ve hated is here in front of me and yet still out of reach She won’t tell me she loves me She won’t move in She won’t be mine

"Why are you here? You don’t want me You never wanted ht in front of me "I wanted you, Finn I’ve alanted you That’s why I’ her was just another forht I orth anything The girl who left s she wanted

"You didn’t alant el? Did he buy you whatever you wanted? Could he give you all those gifts that I couldn’t afford?"

She’s watching me with those sad eyes Those eyes that rery

"And now I’m here, rich as fuck and I can’t even enjoy it because you’re still here I hate you and I want you Why can’t you just get out of my head?"

The pressure behind my forehead is enormous I press my hands on both sides of h I can crush all the dark thoughts But when I open my eyes, she’s still there This deet out of oes dark

CHAPTER TEN

RISSA

I race out of the building, ignoring John’s concerned call Tears are strea from my eyes so fast that I can barely see but somehow I findfingers I hit the button to unlock it Once I’ so fast

I’m not even sure what just happened Rain pounds the windshield and the sound is coainst the outside world That’s what I need, soet my equilibrium back Whatever that was … I think back to what just happened upstairs I’e? I’ve never seen Finn like that before He didn’t even look like he was in his rightAs bad as the raw physical violence I’d sensed in hi from his lips were even worse

Finn is the last person that I ever thought I’d have to be afraid of