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Chapter Thirty-Seven
Rebel
I fucked up. I shouldn’t have left like that. I need Raven to know that I’m not mad at her; I just don’t deal with surprises well.
At least, not bad ones anyway.
Fuck. I don’t mean like that. Phoenix...being Phoenix’s father isn’t a bad surprise. But learning that my brother lied to me for years is devastating. I can’t believe that he watched me pine for and chase a ghost girl all over the country. When all along...well, if he’d just said something that day...I’m not saying that we would all have been living happily ever after together for the last four years, but at least we might have had some closure or something.
That’s about the worst kind of surprise anyone could hit me with.
I’m reeling.
I can’t bring myself to answer his calls and messages. I have no idea what to say to him. He can’t even explain why he did it, because I know him well enough to know that his only reasoning would have been that she asked him to, and because he loves her it wouldn’t occur to him to do anything else.
But…every cloud has a silver lining, right?
I hope to God that mine does. My silver lining is the hope I’m clinging onto; that I am Phoenix’s father.
Charlotte’s Diary
Present day
I can’t fight this attraction with Rebel any longer. Chemistry continues to grow between us and whenever he touches me, my skin sparks. I haven’t felt this alive in so long. I want him. When we’re alone, it’s dangerous. The pull between us is so strong that it scares me. When we’re apart, I can’t stop thinking about him. And don’t even get me started on the way he haunts my dreams...Even when he’s around Phoenix, my attraction - and love - for him grows. He’s amazing with her. A natural. He would make such a good dad.
