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Which was one word I could never use to describe…him

I couldn’t bring myself to think about him just yet I didn’t want to It was all too ’s betrayal, his arrest I couldn’t process it But when I looked over at Tanner again, I couldn’t help but make a comparison Where Tanner was clean skin and sunshine, tall and lean like his body was built by swi was tanned and tattooed with a constant thunderstorm in his eyes Hiswith the devil himself

When I wasn’t staring at Tanner, I kneas looking ata hole in my cheek But every time I turned my head his way he averted his eyes and pretended to be interested in so out the

And then there was the little boy

The fact that I could be a mother was completely ridiculous

Unbelievable at best

But oddly enough, he was the only thing in that car I felt sure about

My father, my boyfriend, my son The Town Car was filled with my supposed family, and yet, with the exception of the little one, every fiber offurther and further aith every mile we drove

KING

Maybe it was all a lie Every single bit of it King had told me he loved me Maybe that was a lie too I didn’t knohat I could believe anymore

Don’t just be alive Live He’d told me

So I lived

And I loved

The anger I’d been feeling toward King for lying to me had temporarily fallen away the second I saw the look of disappointment cross over his face when he realized Max wasn’t in that car

And then when the detective put hie