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Perfect

I could corner her in here

“You don’t want to talk about it You didn’t want to talk about it back then, either, and look where it got us”

Her legs bumped into the bed and she fell back

“But we’re not eighteen any to talk about this, and we’re going to do it now”

She folded her arms and looked up at me “We are, we are?”

“Either way, I’ to listen”

She looked out of the s like a petulant child A that because I was being heavy handed, and if there was anything that Holley Stuart hated, it was being told what to do

“I’h ti as I did to try to tell you the truth about how I felt And I’ to me back then”

“Like you are now?” She looked up at me with defiance in her eyes

I fought back a laugh “You don’t have to like it, but you’re gonna listen to ive a da to listen to what I have to say and you’re going to accept it as truth, because that’s what it is”

Her expression didn’t change

Steely-eyed, closed-mouthed, cheek-flushed

God, she was so frustratingly beautiful

“My biggest regret is never telling you the truth That, and apparentlyyou feel like you ht I’d honestly hurt you in that way”

Her nostrils flared “I never thought that”

I leaned forward, resting my hands either side of her body on the bed She leaned back asin a deep breath

“Then why didn’t you listen to me when I wanted to talk to you?”