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He doesn’t know that I know. Neither does she, but I can do them both a favor and tell them.
I want to kiss her one last time though.
I know it’s wrong. But it’s just a goodbye kiss. Something to remember her by. Something to let her know that it’s okay. That I’m okay with her loving him. I just want her to be happy. She needs it more than anyone. I can see it in her eyes.
My throat feels tight as I walk past Fourth Street. The rain starts coming down harder and it feels fitting.
I pull up my hoodie around my head and listen to my sneakers squeak on the sidewalk as I make my way closer to heartbreak.
I thought her telling me that she couldn’t be with me anymore was the worst thing I’d ever feel.
But knowing she loves my brother and wants him more than she wants me? Fuck, it hurts. It hurts so fucking much.
My phone vibrates and I look down to see a text from Daniel. She’s gone into the corner store now and Daniel said it looks like she’s been crying. She’s been doing it at school too. But she won’t let me near her this time. She won’t let me comfort her when she needs it so badly.
This isn’t the first time she’s dumped me. My brothers don’t know because I’m too ashamed to tell them.
But each time she did, I’d find her crying somewhere and she’d let me hold her to make it feel better.
I just loved her, hoping she loved me back. And I know some part of her does. But I never thought she didn’t love me fully because there was someone else.
I thought it was just the way she is. That she just pushes people away and that I would have to handle her more gently. I should have known by the way she avoided Daniel and the way he asked about her.
How was I so fucking stupid?
Do you want me to go to her?Daniel texts me and I stop one block over from where she is. Where both of them are. So close, I can see the window of the store. The light is dim in the sheets of rain. So close, but so far away.
I should tell him yes. I should let him go to her. I bet she’d let him comfort her.
But I just want one last kiss. Just one more time before I let her go.
It’s all I want. Just one last kiss before I let her go.
CHAPTER29
Addison
“Idon’t think I can breathe.”
“I’m not inside you right now, so you should be fine,” Daniel quips as the car door shuts behind us. He leaves his black Mercedes in the paved horseshoe driveway as we step up to the Cross estate. The stubborn asshole wouldn’t let me drive. The painkillers definitely helped him. But I’m looking forward to someone taking a look at him. Someone who knows what they’re doing.
“It’s different from the other house,” I state, ignoring Daniel’s joke and how easy this is for him. It’s not just different. It’s massive. They used to live in a small house off the backroads. This is … something else.
“Home looks different when you’re different,” he tells me and walks forward, leaving me standing in the shadow of the large white stone house. Is it even a house? It looks like a mansion.
“Who lives here?” I ask Daniel and he wraps his arm around my waist. “It’s for all of us.”
I haven’t seen any of his brother’s since the funeral and on that day, I couldn’t look any of them in the eye. I could barely speak to them. I could barely do anything because the guilt was so strong. My pulse quickens as he pushes me forward.
“I don’t know …”
“I know you can. And you’ll feel better when you do. Both of us will feel better when we go in there.” His eyes plead with me—not just to go in for him, but to bewithhim.
He holds out his hand for me, leaving it in the air until I finally grip on to him.
“Don’t leave me,” I whisper and stare into his eyes.
A tight smile is the response I get, followed by him leaning down to kiss me once on the lips.
