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The phone rings again and he turns the ringer off, placing it face up on the desk in front of him He places both fists on the desk, his face expressionless

"What directions would those be?" I press

He pushes back froht, his eyes distant I’ve never seen hi in a ray of sunshine when I had his attention I had no idea the sun was eventually going to set

"You’re a lot younger than I aure out what you want to do with your life"

"What does that even e difference is and so do you You’ve known since the ed"

He rubs his forehead with two fingers, thu a headache "I turned thirty-five last week I reevaluated"

"You reevaluated?" I seethe "You just reevaluated me out of your life? Just like that? You cannot be serious with the bullshit coht noyer Camden"

"You have no direction, Everly," he says sharply "You’re graduating in a fewwith your life"

He knows that bothers me He knows it

"You selected a college solely as a means to seduceto end between us?"

"Don’t do this, Sawyer" I say it softly, tears threatening behind eneral rule But I’ht now