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“You haven’t dated very long What if you two split up and she becoht never recover if the truth is revealed” Adele sounds so full of draets off on it

“There’s no way in hell Fable will spill this Stop worrying” And with that, I hang up I don’t want to talk to her anymore I don’t want to talk, period

Instead, I sit in y, the s stea down harder I don’t want to go into hts are too jumbled, too focused on what Adele said

I wish she never told me the supposed truth about Vanessa It would’ve been so h life oblivious to that fact

But she shared in her ain Just when I think I’m free of Adele’s shackles, she pulls me back in, locks me up

And tosses away the key

~ Chapter Fourteen ~

One Week’s Up, Midnight

I choose you – Drew Callahan

Fable

I can’t sleep I’ My ed her to call her new loser boyfriend to make up with hi the call and they took off to their favorite hangout: a shitty bar the local drunks love

That I work at a bar doesn’t go unnoticed byin her footsteps no matter how hard I try not to Makes me wonder if we’re predestined to end up like our parents anyway, regardless if we fight against it

Just the thought depresses me so I file it away

Owen came home around five, the relief that Mo—if a little crude—nature I really need to break hi at a rapid pace, but who a time