The moment he speaks about Aiden, my blood boils. He has hit the weakest spot in my heart here. How dare he.
Now that he's on the verge of losing me, he's using my attachment to Aiden to make me feel guilty?
My hand is shaking when I ball it into a fist.
"It was a mistake," I shout, making Luke watch me in disbelief. "Everything about us wasn't supposed to happen. You, and Aiden. It was all a mistake."
Silence falls, only my ragged breathing echoing in the room.Before I can hear Luke's response, a sound catches my ears.
Something knocks the shelf behind the sofa, making a book fall onto the carpet with a soft thud.
Luke and I automatically step toward it. My heart is beating like a drum in my chest, and fear builds up inside me.
Then my eyes widen in disbelief.
There, behind the sofa, Aiden stands up.
He has been here all along.
Did he rush to hide when he noticed us coming in and arguing? I remember how he asked us to come home as soon as possible, how he kept watching our car as we left our house earlier tonight.
Did he really wait for us to come home?
"Aiden," I stutter, feeling like I’m dying, darkness engulfing me. He has heard my words.
Aiden snaps his head toward me, and when I see the look in his eyes, the air in my lungs is sucked out. His eyes are filled with tears and so much sadness.
He storms toward the door, leaving me speechless.
"Aiden!" Luke calls, the same panic evident in his voice.
My whole body is shaking. What did I just say? What did I just do?
Luke turns to me and hisses, "You did not just say that." And with that, he rushes outside to catch Aiden.
The agony I was feeling a moment ago when I was fighting with Luke is nothing compared to what I feel now as I watch Aiden leaving.
It's like my heart is being attacked bya thousand needles.
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CASSIE
My thoughts have only been filled with Luke and Aiden since they left. I cry myself to sleep, thinking about how I must have hurt them with my words, especially Aiden.
He's just a child, and he doesn't deserve it at all.
I didn't mean anything that I said. I didn't know that Aiden was listening. I said my words out of anger, because I was so angry at Luke.
It's hard to trust Luke knowing he has hidden many things from me. I thought that I knew him, but I don't.
None of his actions in the past make sense to me, to the point that I question everything Jude said.
Thinking about Luke breaks my heart into a million pieces, but remembering Aiden's face when he left is even worse.
My heart can't take it. It thumps hard, restless, and my head hurts, just like when I had the accident in the swimming pool.
