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“A year?!”
I raised my hands in a surrendering gesture. “You promised you wouldn’t get mad.”
“I take back my promise. I’m livid.”
“That’s not how promises work. You can’t take it back.”
“You need to start explaining before I murder you for not telling me in the first place.”
“You’re supposed to be on my side.”
“I am on your side, but that doesn’t mean I’m not furious I’m only just now hearing about this. I can’t believe you hid this from me.”
“I just… I didn’t… I know.” I squeezed her hands, placing them on my lap. “I’m so sorry. I won’t keep anything from you again.”
“I’m assuming Adrian is aware.”
“More than aware. He’s completely taken control of my life.”
“Well… I could think of worse things. How do you two know each other anyway?”
I bowed my head, feeling ashamed as I shared…
“He was my best friend’s brother.”
Chapter Twenty-Three
Paige
“Was?”
“Yeah, we’re not best friends anymore. We haven’t been in a very long time. I haven’t seen him in ten years and up until I saw Adrian in your kitchen, I hadn’t seen him either.”
“What happened?”
“So much.”
“And you haven’t moved passed it?”
“I can’t. It’s staring me in the face every time Adrian looks at me.”
“You mean his love for you?”
“Adrian doesn’t love me.”
“Are you blind? I could see his love for you from the minute he saw you in my kitchen.”
“I don’t…you just don’t know Adrian. He’s…complicated.”
“What about your stalker? What’s happened there?”
“We can’t figure out who it is.”
“How bad is it?”
“Bad enough to where I’m scared all hours of the day.”
“Oh, Paige… Why didn’t you tell me?”
