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“Keep going.”
“I can’t trust anyone,” I added. “Not you. Not my thoughts. Not the people around me. No one.”
“Your siblings?”
“That’s different.” I narrowed my eyes in disgust. “They’re babies.”
“Your sister is going to be seventeen on her next birthday. That hardly makes her a baby, Joey.”
“She’s still a baby to me,” I argued. “Anyone whose nappies I’ve changed or knees I’ve put plasters on will always be a baby in my eyes. Besides, they’re not included in that statement.”
“And Darren?”
“You really want to push the boat out today, don’t ya?”
She laughed. “Let’s go there, shall we?”
“I’d rather not,” I replied flatly. “I wasn’t entirely hating today’s session. Bring him up and I’ve a feeling that’ll change.”
“Not entirely hating today’s session.” She grinned. “That’s a compliment if ever I heard one. It only took, what, eleven weeks?”
“Don’t get too cocky.”
“Would you like to know what I think?”
“No.”
“Humor me.”
“Again, no.”
“I think your relationship with Darren is one of your biggest triggers.”
“I don’t do triggers, Doc.”
“Because he broke your heart,” she pushed on. “Because he broke your trust.”
“On the contrary, he taught me a valuable lesson,” I replied coolly.
“Which was?”
“Everyone leaves, and nobody fucks you over like your own blood.”
“But Darren came back.”
“Too little, too late.”
“I think you desperately miss your big brother.”
I snorted. “Like fuck.”
“He wants to visit you.”
I stiffened. “And?”
“And I think it might help you heal.”
“No.” I was up and out of my seat within seconds. “You tell that prick to go back to Belfast and go back to forgetting about me. And if I’m suddenly being allowed visitors, then there’s only one face I want to see.”
