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Ace: Got held up. You need me to come get you?
Remi: Held up where?
Ace: Don’t you trust me, Princess?
“Let me guess, your knight-in-inked-armor?” Hadley smirks and I flip her off.
Remi: I trust you... I just don’t want you to get hurt again.
Or worse—I don’t want him to hurt someone else. But I don’t want to give him cause to doubt my faith in him. Not when he’s trying so hard.
Ace: I’ll tell you everything later, I promise.
Remi: Okay... be safe. xo
“Geez, you have it so bad.”
“Do not.” I stick my tongue out at her.
“It’s written all over your face. Ace and Remi sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carri—”
“Stop, already. I get it. I’m worse than a lovesick puppy.”
“It looks good on you, though. He looks good on you.” She hesitates.
“But?”
“But are you sure you can trust him... after everything?”
I let out a weary sigh. Hadley is the one person I don’t mind questioning where my head’s at, because I know her motives are pure. She’s my f
riend. She isn’t worried that Ace will tarnish my reputation or corrupt my soul.
Okay, maybe she is a little, but she’ll still be there to pick up the pieces if it all goes to shit.
“I know what it looks like to everyone, but isn’t it part of lov...” I swallow the words, “caring for someone about giving them another chance? Ace knows he screwed up. And I know he’s not perfect. But neither am I.”
“I get it,” she says quietly. “You can’t help who you fall for.” Sadness etches into her expression.
“You know, you never did tell me your story.”
“I’m still not ready to talk about it.” Hadley gives me a weak smile.
“Well, when you are, I’ll be here.”
“But you should know, I know what it feels like to be ostracized for loving the wrong person. The only difference is you have the power to choose for yourself, I didn’t. Don’t ever let people shame you for the way you feel.”
“I won’t,” I say, because something tells me she needs to hear it right now.
“Good. Besides, I need some vicarious action.” Hadley’s brows waggle. “Details, girl. I need all the glorious details.”
“We didn’t actually... ya know.”
“Bump uglies, fuck like rabbits, have mind-blowing, earth-shattering sex? Why the hell not?”
“Well, at first, I put the brakes on. He hurt me, Hads, he really hurt me.” The lingering trace of betrayal clenches my heart. “I didn’t just want to throw myself at him. But then one thing led to another and that to another and I tried to touch him and...”
“He’s punishing himself.”
