Chapter 47

“How can you be bothered with all the fakeness?”

There is enough dishonesty in his world. Home should be the place where it doesn’t live. Even I wanted a place where I didn’t have to put on a show and lie all the time. I found that when I was in the club apartment, and it’s a necessary respite.

How he can stand to look at her is beyond me.

“I can’t. That’s why I rarely go home and fell in love with a girl who is nothing like that. I don’t want that kind of relationship, like my parents. I never did. This lifestyle has enough lies and deceit; I don’t want it between us anymore. I want something pure with you.”

I want those words to be the truth.

“It’s hard to forget everything and take you at face value, you know?” It’s not easy to go from a lifetime of trusting no one to trust the one who wounded you deeper than most, even if he makes it sound like a possibility within my grasp and something I might want.

“I know. If I could take it all back, I wo