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What was that?!
"You felt it too, didn’t you?" I asked, watching him walk away "It felt like…it felt like they were still here It felt like Steven was here Did it feel like your wife--"
He turned with a fire burning in his stare "Don’t ever speak about an to hurry away once again
He felt it
I knew he did
"You can’t…you can’t just walk away, Tristan We can talk to each other About theest fear ever was the idea of forgetting
He kept walking
I hurried beside hi soet to know the and falling as I beca away in the midst of our conversation In thekissme remember what it had been like to feel happy, and I hated hi that small moment of lust that faintly reminded me of the love that had been taken away from me "God Why do you have to be such a…such a…monster?!"
He turned to ed his eyes before his jaw and his facial expression hardened "I don’t want you, Elizabeth" He tossed his hands up in frustration and stepped towardto do with you" He stepped closer I stepped back "I don’t want to talk to you about your fucking dead husband" Another step closer "I don’t want to tell you shit about my dead wife" Step, step Back, back "I don’t want to touch you" Closer Backward "I don’t want to kiss you" Step "I don’t want to lick you" Back Back Step Step "And I da friend So leaveoverfroht
As I took one final step backward, the heel ofme to tuhout my body the whole way down Minus a few bruises and a ton of e over me within an instant "Shit," hehis hand out to me
I refused his offer and stood on my own His eyes were filled with concern, but I didn’t care They would probably be filled with hate within a moment’s time
Seconds before the fall, he had told ave him exactly what he wanted I li his way, even though I could see his pathetic stare out of the corner of my eye
"He pushed you down a hill?!" Faye shouted into the phone The moment I’d returned from my interaction with Tristan, I’d called her I needed ht and Tristan rong
Even if I had called him a monster
"Well, not exactly He yelled at me, and I kind of tripped"
"After he kissed you?"
"Yes"
"Ugh I hate him I hate him so much"
I nodded "I hate him too"