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“What does any of that have to do with me?”
“The girl would make sure you had the food you liked, Ares. The drink you liked. Girls don’t do that if they don’t care. Especially girls who don’t eat or drink that shit. And your girl only strays from rabbit food for chocolate or ice cream. Trust me, I’ve watched. I might not have liked that you two were keeping your shit quiet. But I did like how happy you were. And I kinda feel like me giving you shit that morning may have played into whatever happened between you two.”
“It didn’t have anything to do with you, B. I promise.”
This shitstorm was all on us.
Bellamy leaves, and I look at my phone and scroll through her messages.
Grace
I miss you.
It’s dated from almost a week ago.
I didn’t answer her then, and I’m not going to answer now.
But fuck . . . I want to.
Ireach for my phone without opening my eyes.
Who the fuck calls in the middle of the night?
What time is it?
I squint and look at the screen. It’s after four in the morning.
And shit.
“Hello,” I answer as soon as I see it’s Mom.
“Ares . . .” she cries.
“Mom, what’s wrong?”
“Oh, honey. I didn’t know who to call first. It’s Dad.”
I sit up, and the world stops spinning around me. “What’s wrong, Mom? What do you need?”
“Oh, Ares. He’s gone...” she sobs, and I stare at my phone in shock and denial.
I just saw him a week ago.
He can’t be gone.
He was fine.
He was talking and smiling and trying to get me to sneak him bacon and bourbon.
He was telling me life was too damn short.
And now . . . “He’s gone.”
GRACE
Ican do this.I look at myself in the bathroom mirror, completely disgusted that I still feel like shit. But at least I’m satisfied with the makeup I’ve applied to look less walking-dead-ish.
I refuse to let Ares Wilder walk by me again like I don’t exist, probably thinking he means nothing to me, when he means everything. I’m going to tell him how much I love him and beg him to give me just a few more days to get my shit together and deal with my family. I was going to talk to them first, but then I realized it was stupid to wait. He’s my priority.
