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They were the words I’d knoere co Secrets balanced on top of lies, sprinkled with omissions—it had only been a round aroundsplintered shards scattered all over my life

Liv looked back atme with new eyes, and ouldn’t she? I’d slept with her brother’s fiancée I’d gotten her plastered all over social media and told her brother the one secret she’d needed to tell him herself

“I didn’tto show hi you away”

“You think you knohat she needsforher over into me

I grabbed her shoulders, steadying her “Yes! You keep trying to shove her into this twelve-year-old-sized hole in the old life you had, and it won’t work anymore She’s an adult She deserves to live a life that makes her happy”

“You two stop talking about me like I’m not here” She shoved both of us away and stepped back “It wasn’t your place to tell him”

I squeezed my eyes shut and clenchedthe to tell hi you away, that you love hi you so unhappy It slipped out”

“That slips out but you can’t tell me I’m about to marry someone who’d cheat?”

“And hoould that have gone down, Colirl you’ve been secretly dating You’re happier than I’ve ever seen you and I show up at that table and…what? I tell you what? That she’s a cheater? You’d have wanted to kno I knew, and I’d have had to confess that to you, would have had to break the heart of ivenme

Collared and paced At that ine

Liv stared at uy than the one she’d wrapped around last night, like I wasn’t the person she thought I was, and maybe I wasn’t

“Last night, you could have toldthat talk with hi” Liv’s hurt echoed in her voice

“Last night—” Colm froze with his hand halfway in his hair Everysnapped He rushed forward “It was you The video…the video all over socialhand to Liv