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“Hayley...”
“He was my first.”
“Okay, Hayley.” He looked angrier than I’d ever seen him before. “Would you like to talk about this like an adult?”
“You tell me.”
He sighed and paced the room. “Walk me through this from your point of view.”
“So you can yell at me?”
“So I can decide if I still want to kill him or not.”
“I have feelings for Corey, Jonathan.”
“Then why are you crying? This isn’t helping his case.”
“For five minutes, can you just pretend that you’re not my older brother?” I shook my head. “Like, act as if I’m just your close friend who wants to cry on your shoulder?”
His expression immediately softened, and he walked over to me, pulling me close.
As his arms tightened around me, I realized I couldn’t hold back anymore.
“Corey is my best friend, too,” I said crying. “And despite the years we didn’t talk, I still loved him. I just didn’t know that at the time, but I know it now.”
He blinked. “What are you saying?”
“I’m saying I love him, Jonathan. It wasn’t—it wasn’t what you think it is, I swear.”
He pulled a handkerchief from his suit and wiped my tears. He rubbed my back, eventually calming me down enough to speak coherently again.
Leading me over to a couch, he took a seat next to me and sighed. “I’m sorry I jumped to conclusions.”
“I’m sorry for not telling you about us sooner.”
“No,” he said, shaking his head. “It’s actually good that you didn’t. I don’t think I would’ve handled that well.”
“Did you really put him out of your wedding?”
“Let’s not talk about me,” he said, wiping my face again. “You think you’re in love with him?”
“No, I know.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because he’s the only guy I’ve thought about since the day we met.”
He raised his eyebrow, looking completely stunned. “Come again?”
“I think I’ve been in love with him since you left Ohio for Harvard. Well, after we got to know each other, but you get the point.”
He still looked stunned.
“Claire said that I probably didn’t realize that I loved him back then.”
“Claire knew about this shit?” He narrowed his eyes.
“Jonathan!”
