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"No No, I fucking get it Message received What I don’t get is why you waited this long to tell oddamn husband!"

"He’s my ex-husband," she said weakly It sounded h sounded in my throat, and I nodded past her "Does he know that? Better yet, do you?"

October 24

Kennedy

LIAM STORMED PAST me, but I didn’t try to stop him I didn’t knohat to say I didn’t knohat to say at all now that Rhys was here Like Kira had said, it’d been four years since any of us had seen him

Minutes after I heard the front door shut, I turned at the sound of so toward me, and found Rhys there

Aafter knowing each other for only teeks Being devastatingly in love with hi simply devastated when he left uys, sure, but no one had been like Rhys until Lia you only ever see in fairy tales Rhys had been ht I was his Obviously I had been wrong

My faotten hteen when I met him, but mostly because we barely knew each other and none of them had even raduation, and even though I’d been positive I wouldn’t end up going to college with e had ended up being an escape when he’d asked for a divorce just teeks before classes started

He’d fed ive me the life I deserved--co expression I’ve seen on anyone’s face--and I never saw hiain He didn’t return to his apart with him over the summer, and his phone was taken out of service that day I received the divorce papers in thein love

My mom and sister were equallyone Where I thought he’d be happy that Rhys had leftbut holdmy side if Uncle Mason was there to take his place Neither of them ever said a word, but their worry and sadness had been unexpected

And now, after four years, Rhys was standing inCalifornia

"Why are you here? Ho are you here?" I asked hiain

"Are you asking how I knehere to find you?"

"Yes, Rhys, I want to kno you knehere ere" And I wanted to do anything but start crying again

"Your dad told me"

I waited for him to correct hi, he stared at me with the same heartbroken expression on his face as he’d worn on the day he told me ere over