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“Bryan, I—”
“Let’s not do this, yeah? I said I’ll keep your secret and I will.”
“You’re a good friend, Bryan.” Shouldering the door, I went to climb out, but he stopped me.
“Peyton?”
“Yeah?”
“Happy birthday. I hope you get everything you wish for.” He leaned over and opened the glove compartment and handed me a small gift box. “You might as well have this.”
Barbed coils of guilt squeezed my heart as I saw the gift.
“I bought it before, well, you know…”
“Thank you.” I got out of the car and closed the door, inhaling a sharp breath.
I was a horrible person. The worst. Bryan didn’t deserve this. But I also couldn’t pretend there was something more there when there wasn’t.
Bryan might have only seen me.
But I only saw Xander.
