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I can feel River’s seething anger.
Slowly, I turn my head. River’s face is an angry red; her fists are balled.
“River, I can explain. Luna doesn’t know what we just talked about and—”
River stands and points at Luna. “You made her your sidekick, Huff!” River yells. “Your fucking sidekick! And she can have the drug, but I get your dick to stay alive. How convenient!”
“Yes, but—”
“But it’s just supposed to be you and me,right?” she says rhetorically. “Isn’t that what you just said? No more hero. Just the two of us.” River stands. “We’re done, Huff. Done. Do you hear me?”
River goes inside the cabin, and I follow her up the stairs.
“Sam, it’s time to go.” She starts shaking him.
“Why won’t you let me explain, Riv?” I say. “A lot happened and—”
“I don’t want to hear it. I’m leaving. I never want to see you again.” River tries to wake Sam again.
“But what about your heart?” I say. “What if you’re still hooked on—”
“What? Your cum?” She laughs bitterly. “Well, good thing it won’t matter because my heart’s already broken. Thanks to you.”
Sam starts rousing. “What’s going on?”
“You still have that friend’s house we can go to?” River asks.
“Yeah. We can stay there while I hire a lawyer to keep us out of Clover.”
River looks over my shoulder at Luna, who’s now standing behind me. “Can you take us there?”
“River, I’ll do it,” I say.
“No. You keep your fucking hands off me.” River pushes past me. “See you outside, Sam and Luna.”
I can’t believe this. I just can’t win with this girl.All sense of reason dissolves from my head, replaced by anger, frustration, and, well, fucking everything!
I follow River downstairs and outside to the beach. “You know what, Riv? Fine. I accept your decision. Because no woman in her right mind would be pissed off at me after everything I went through to get you back while keeping my promise to not martyr myself. I went through hell for you, and you won’t even listen to what I have to say.”
“No, Huff.Iwent through hell. Again and again and again. But still you’ve managed to make it all about you for the hundredth time.”
“At some point, my life does need to be aboutme, River, and I’m not going to say sorry for it anymore. I’m not here to bow down and grovel at your feet. I’m not here to make Kyle an international star. I’m not here to be anyone’s bitch.”
River stares, and I can tell I’m losing my temper. I can’t afford to.
I look at Luna, who’s standing on the porch, watching worriedly while River and I go at it.
“Luna,” I say, “I gotta take off. Please take River and her new boyfriend wherever they want to go.”
“Where are you going?” Luna asks.
“To punch some trees.”
“Not cool. But okay.”
I zip out of there and take out my anger on innocent foliage once again.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
