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“That’s not important What’s i in But because our parents were all for us getting together, you bought into it too”

“That’s not true I…”

“Whatever you feel, or think you feel now, the fact is I’h with a loveless e, you deserve better than that”

“But why now? If you say you’ve never been in love, why call things off now, almost two years later?” Why do women always ask questions the don’t really want the answers to?

“It’s better now than later There’s no forement between us and no matter when anyone else think, this is our lives and we’re the ones who have to live it I need to get back I have some stuff to take care of”

I walked away feeling a little sad about the friendship I know I’d just lost, butof freedom more thanguilt

I stopped by the specialty shop and got her a box of very expensive chocolate which she dug into that night after I snuck her into nant women and how to take care of them

So that night while she slept I stayed up long after reading I’onna need to take a trip to the store Half that shit I was sure wasn’t in the house Like ginger candy for nausea and peppermint tea to help settle her tummy

Iand made a run to the store the next day after she’d snuck back downstairs I got Kate to assign her to anizing the extensive library left to randpa

My parents were so pleased to seean interest that they were all in I doubt they even knehat she looked like there were soin and out of here, but that worked in my favor Mom would’ve taken one look at her and nixed the idea

For the next couple of weeks we fell into a routine of sorts Each night she’d sleep in uest roo

In the s she’d wake up an hour early, I’d hold her hair while she threw up then run down and o with the crackers she likes to nibble on Those two things see else

Then she’d get to work helping me sort books in the library and I’d stay in there with herher to talk o for me to earn her trust

But the more time I spent with her, the more I wanted her I freaked if I caone I e shit she had a taste for, and I watched over her hts while she slept

SOFIA

I don’t jump as much when he comes near me anymore I’m still uneasy sometimes but not as much as I’d have expected I don’t have the fear that some may have, that all men want to hurttoo close, neither man nor woman

But he’s different I know hewhen I woke to find him in the chair next to et sick And I’ve known it each tiently over the child

Those tiht back the tears It had taken me a while to accept the child, to separate him fro else grew in me As the only male in my family, it was now up to him to seek justice

But I will need a place for the child to grow I ht to make my way on my own, and then when Draco was so kind to ht that he could be a way out

And then I felt ashahts To misuse someone who had shown me only kindness would make me no better than the one who har