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I was exhausted, and fought through the fog to gather hts I had were that sex with Griff was a and that dinner could wait And when I heard Griff say, "Go to sleep, baby," I finally succuan answered her phone when I rang her first thing the nextafter Griff had toldcentre car park, and what her boyfriend, Brody, had done

"Magan, Griff told me about what Brody did Are you okay? Because I’et in ht over to your house Bloork, and if they want to say anything aboutlate today, that’s their problem" My words all rushed out in my anxious state

"No, I’m not okay," she confessed, and I heard all her fears in her voice

She needs rabbedout of the house while we kept talking

"Thank you," she said quietly, and I kneas doing the right thing And it was just another reason to be an’s hand through this

It should be her ready to catch her if she falls

I hung up and drove to her house She lived about twenty reeted me at the front door with tears in her eyes I pulled her into my arms and comforted her while the tears fell

"Have you heard from him?" I asked

She shook her head "No, he hasn’t called," she said through her tears, and I wanted to kill the asshole for breaking her heart

I frowned "Magan, this guy treated you badly Why do you want him to call? Wouldn’t you rather move on and find someone worthy of your love?"

She sed hard and looked at ave her fear away "I was lucky to find Brody, Sophia I’ve never had a boyfriend who cared about me the way he does"

My heart hurt for her I knehere this kind of thinking stemmed from because I’d been there, done that inthose we loved to leave us, so we let them walk all over us in order to keep them

Our mother really has a lot to answer for

"You’re scared to lose hiet that, but you’re better off without a person like that in your life It’s not really hiives you that you desperately want Trust me, I know, because I’ve had asshole boyfriends, too, and I put up with a lot of shit before I realised I orthto control you by taking advantage of your insecurities"

She stared atto wrap her head around what I’d just said I figured she wouldn’t come to fully understand the truth in what I’d said until she’d lived her life some more Unfortunately in life, we usually had tobetter choices