Chapter 67

As soon as they saunter off and it’s only the two of us out here on the doorstep, Sophs turns and tries to dodge me, making it obvious she isn’t going to offer any kind of explanation and tries to veer around me to go back inside. I am in no mood for avoidance, not when I find out the girl, I am crazy about and only stayed away from has been hiding behind a fucking lie. A huge one that changes everything.

I grab her by the hand as she passes and pull her back with me. Head set on answers and being a drunk asshole because I’m fucking raging that she kept the truth from me. To hurt me? To fuck me up? Yeah, I deserved it, but it still sucks that it cuts this deep and she has no idea what it’s stopped me from doing these past months. How many times I stood outside her apartment and didn’t come to her, didn’t try harder to reach out or get to her. How much I have pined, ached, and longed to see her. He’s all that stood in my way because I thought she had moved on and all I ever wan