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I wanted to take a step toward her, but her expression told me to hold off

“Why didn’t you tell me before?”

“What was there to tell? Soirl made up a story about me?”

“You could have toldYou could haveback from me, Luke? Is there more?”

“That’s it It’s out You know all of it The rest you can read online My sins are public And that is the truth”

She turned fros everywhere

“I don’t knohat to say right now”

“Fuck Neither do I Can’t you reschedule? Go toame”

“What?”

I nodded It was the only thing that would work I should have thought of it sooner

“Yes You go during the game There’s no way Charlie can expect me to be at the hospital And if you were really here to see ame”

“But I don’t want to ame I want to see you It’s supposed to be my first time to watch you play in person”

There was some kind of primal instinct that kicked into my chest The same one that made me want to shield her from hurt The same one that told me I should beat the hell out of Jake The one that told me she felt I was as much hers as she was mine

“Hey, this is more important”

I tipped her chin upward I risked touching her