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Seconds after h Kira’s throat and she buried her face in her hands as she cried

I wasn’t sure how to react or what to say Kira had cried over hi surprised But she hadn’t once offered up any piece of infor about this tiain facing her and put one ofeventually stopped and she was looking atinh

"You ready to tell me now?" I asked a couple , Kira, and it has been at least a week of you walking around like there’s nolike this a ain and expect ain, no response from her

"I’m not sure if I should call Mom, or Zane, orI don’t know"

"Don’t call Zane," she whispered hoarsely

Her sudden deure out what to say "Okay, I won’t Do I need to call Mom?"

"He probably wouldn’t answer anyway," sheher throat "No, don’t call Momand don’t call Dad either The three of you would probably have a celebration over it, and I don’t need to hear how happy you all are"

"Happy?" I laughed hesitantly "Is this because of Lia tiain, but this ti else I could think of thaton me"

My head jerked back "What? Kira, no, he’s not It’s just hard because of the--"

"No, Kennedy, he’s cheating onto be secretive about it" Her eyes welled up again, but she spoke through the tears "Well, I don’t even know if you can consider it cheating anyo"

I was too shocked to even kno to respond to what she’d just told ht I would have a celebration with our parents Kira had been the only person in our family to actually like Zane

"I knew this would happen," she muttered "As soon as Dad told me that we needed to leave for California, I knew"

"You couldn’t have known, Iwhat to say "How could you knoould do so like this?"

"Because I wouldn’t be around to keep him interested anymore"

"That’s bullshit, Kira Keep hi, the distance should have erisn’t that what they say? Distance makes the heartI don’t know Whatever that stupid saying says?"

"Grow fonder," she finished for me on a huff "Not with Zane He needswell, he needs to have someone within reach Someone he can touch Someone to satisfy him when he wants it That’s the only reason he went to the sa there"

"What? I thought he was just following you to be with you"

Kira shook her head "That’s why I was always near him in Florida, I was afraid he’d lose interest if I wasn’t around"