Chapter 65

“Why are you being like this?” My body visibly vibrates with the intense emotions coursing and building, and I have to force it out through clenched teeth and the urge to gag.

“Isn’t this the boyfriend you want? … Because this is who I am and what you would get. How you’re feeling right now will be how I make you feel every day as long as we’re a thing…. Do yourself a favor and run the opposite way. I won’t change for you. I won’t change for anyone. ..”

I stand here like some sad, pathetic doorstep of a girl, silently absorbing his words.

I know it’s an act.

It’s a lie to wound me.

It has to be because he said he liked me.

I tell myself that a hundred times over, but my heart won’t listen, and the tears build up and blur my vision. Aching inside, it runs up my face and down my limbs in utter agony. Heating my skin and burning my soul.

He’s a guy who will do the extreme for the outcome he wants.

Maybe it’s not a lie.

He went