Chapter 158

Cassidy's POV

For a week, Erik had pretty much been ignoring me. He would say hi in the halls as he walked past some sort of group he had signed up for. I didn’t think he was angry with me, but I had no idea. We hadn’t had more than 30 seconds alone in any one sitting since he had returned from Christmas at my house.

He was doing what he was supposed to be doing. If he and I had truly just been patient and employee, I wouldn’t have thought anything at all about how he was acting. Erik was working on his program and seemed extremely zoned in on his treatment plan and what would happen after he left the facility.

The girl in me felt left out, though. I saw him running around with a smile on his face and focus in his eyes, and I wished I was more of a part of whatever was making him happy. But the adult in me knew this was exactly what Erik needed. He needed to focus on himself without whatever it was that he and I had been doing before. If anything, his new focu