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Under all the hurt, the insults, and the things we could never take back, I still felt our profound love in this house

I hadn’t been in our bedroom for months, and once I stepped into the space we used to share, a shiny fraht my attention fro toward the pictures I hadn’t seen in who kno long

Did she just hang these?

Reaching for the frame, I took out the photos to hold them in my hand It was the pictures we had taken in the photobooth at the end of the suo We were sixteen and looked so fucking young Her eyes sparkled against the sun co her contagious smile and petite features as her hair flowed around her stunning face

I reht as if it were yesterday

“Fuck, Kinley,” I breathed out to ?”

“I ask myself that every day, Christian”

I spun around, and our eyes connected She was standing by the door, looking at me with uncertainty and sadness

“If that were true, ouldn’t be getting a divorce”

“What? Now you think I don’t love you? You couldn’t beYou’re the only family I have Did you ever think about that? Do you ever think about how hard this is on me? Do you even care what I feel?”

“Of course I do”

“You’re not the only one who’s hurting, Christian”

“Well, you’re the only one who’s hurting us, Kinley”

“You want a baby A faive you one”

“You don’t know that It was years ago, and if you’d let my partner take a look at yo—”

“Christian, stop! Just stop!”

“Just fucking tellyou?!”

—Kinley—

“I don’t know, Christian! Because I don’t kno to stop loving you either! I’s to you I’ether or else we’ll fight I ask myself every day what happened to us You’re my best friend—”

“I’ht”

“Oh my God! Are we back to this now? Jax isn’t even here He’s in Miami It’s football season”

Jax had been the quarterback for Miami for the last twelve years He was the all-star, the GOAT (greatest of all tie, he quickly becaht sensation with the world Titled one of the ible bachelors by Forbes He was an eternal bachelor, but ere still close He’d been in my life since I elve-years-old, and Christian and he were still constantly butting heads for my attention

You’d think they would have found round after all these years