Chapter 101

Looking at him now, watching him go from her to me subtly, eyes flickering and confusion over his face, I can already tell what he’s thinking. He’s asking himself if he can really do this to her. If he has it in him to be this much of a bastard when she’s looking incredibly vulnerable compared to my strength and confidence. Break her sweet little heart so viciously.

He’s asking himself if he’s got it in him to keep hurting her and both of us dangling in this weird, nothing of a gray area of hoping no decision saves us all. I can tell by the thousands of subtle tells across the seemingly calm face that he’s been mulling this over the whole time he has watched us dance. Hitting home, just like it’s done with me, that he can’t keep doing this, and he needs to stop it all. I know his heart, and he’s clutching for the solution of least destruction like he has been all along. Arrick always tries to do the right thing, no matter what it means for him.

He gazes at me solidly, a