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Who I was kidding? I’d still find hi

Sebastian crossed the patio, stopped at the edge and looked up He appeared co that I’d been out there waiting for him

Then he walked up the side of the house and passed through the gates, and my pulse was all over the place He came around the corner and then started up the steps

Only then did I move

Edging backward, I clasped ether His head crested the top and then he was right in front of uarded, as they had been since the last time he’d been here

His eyes held mine “I’m here”

“Can wego inside?” I asked

Sebastian’s gaze darted to the door and he hesitated—and it hurt, because he’d never hesitated—but then he nodded curtly

I walked to the door and opened it, letting hied his e Sebastian took the computer chair

“Keith said he saw you right before practice,” he said

“Wewe just chatted for a few minutes”

Sebastian waited, and when I didn’t say any more, a muscle popped out in his jaw Mouth dry, I focused on theever to cos with you and Skylar?”

Silence and then, “Is that why you wanted to talk to ht? About her?”

“No,” I said inore that I don’t even knohy I asked”

“Of course not,” he muttered

I flinched “I need to tell you so Well, I need to first say I’m sorry for what I said to you that, uht”

“No,” he replied “No, it wasn’t”

I winced but kept going “I knoe were doing wasn’t about It wasn’t about getting laid” I flushed hotly “And I know you miss your friends as much as I do, and I shouldn’t have insinuated otherwise”

Sebastian didn’t reply, so I shiftedhtly Then he spoke

“It took you a ize?”

“It shouldn’t have I’ve wanted to before now, but” I sed hard “I don’t have a good excuse except that I’ve been working to get ht with Dr Perry, and I just need to tell you the truth And I don’t kno you will feel afterward You ht walk out of here this ti ed ”

A change came over Sebastian Since I knew him so well, I could see it A wall dropped, and he leaned forward, resting his forearms on his knees “I could never hate you, Lena”

My heart shattered into a million pieces at the almost brutal sweetness of those words He had no idea None He could hatebreath anyway and said, “When I got into the car the night Cody was driving, II wasn’t drunk I could’ve stopped him I didn’t”

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Sebastian didn’t aze didn’t leave ht wasn’t your fault, Lena”