Chapter 32

“I overreacted… I shouldn’t have gone off at you and blamed you. I’m sorry I upset you and acted like an asshole. This wasn’t on you. You’re right…. It was my fault. I shouldn’t have said what I said or made you cry.”

I am speechless and sit here like a gobsmacked statue. Unsure if I am hearing him correctly after his anger explosion at school, and I don’t know how to take it. He’s looking submissive in his bent forward position, and he definitely cannot turn and look me in the face now he’s talking. He feels guilty, that’s for sure. I’m unnerved and a little knocked sideways by this change. My own guilt starting to shine through now he’s diffusing my rage.

I pause for a second, trying to figure out how to react to this. I should give him a piece of my mind, but his aura says he genuinely regrets earlier and might be open to finally talking to me without kicking off. I guess I, too, am to blame and had my part in this because I chose to let the kiss continue.

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