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She shook her head “No, I’d never give you an ultimatum like that I’d never force you to make that choice I know you love her And I love you” Her voice cracked “Co third isn’t the issue But I can’t stand by and watch someone hurt you Football comes first I know that And I’ her hands out palo settled in her mind

“You are so fierce and unstoppable out on the field But I need to put me first And I can’t stand beside you and watch her toxic behavior tear you down I can’t do it and I won’t”

I blinked, staring at her through the sawing pain eviscerating my heart “Then where does that leave us?”

“You tell me” She wiped at her nose with the back of her hand, her eyes red-ri into my soul

My phone vibrated on the desk Alexis’s name flashed across the screen The insistent buzz a

gainst the as a ticking ti relationship

ALEXIS: How are you doing? I can bring you up some cake I tried to talk her out of it

Why wouldn’t Alexis warnthis? Especially if she’d tried to talk her out of it?

A heads-up would’ve been nice, Alexis

“I can’t just walk away from her I won’t She’s my sister” Why couldn’t Jules see that? But Alexis couldn’t see that either… There was nothing Alexis could do to getabout her Especially not now She was the closest thing I had left to faly truth of my childhood, but had been there by my side for a lot of it

From that first tihts Magazine she’d found shoved in the back of a toy box, she was someone I’d never let down I wanted to be that person for Alexis and I’d wanted to be that person for Jules Why couldn’t Jules understand that?

“I can’t watch you ruin your future over sos you’ve sacrificed for her Who’d knowingly do so to hurt you You deserve better than that”

“What you’re saying is I deserve you? You co to make me choose between you andher sound awful You think you’re so much better than her? Than me?”

The door pushed open behind Jules Alexis stood there with a party hat on and a plate with two slices of cake on it

Jules shook her head and rushed forward to a”