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“I didn’t ask for this,” Kendall says while I make the mistake of thinking her anger is running out of steam.
I take a step toward her, but she takes another one back. “I know you didn’t.”
“And yet, you keep making decisions for me and then lying to me about who you are.” She shakes her head again and runs her hand through her hair. Tears streak down her cheeks. “It’s fucking funny, you know, your parents think I’m the problem, but I don’t think they have a clue who their son is.”
I raise an eyebrow. “Did they bother you again?”
“It doesn’t matter now,” she says, opening the door to the garage. “I’m fucking done with this shit.”
The door slams behind her and I slump against the counter, totally defeated.
That could have gone better.
For a moment, I consider calling Blake and asking him to follow her, but I know that if she sees him following her she’s only going to be more pissed off.
Maybe it is time that I stop interfering with her life. None of this is what she wanted.
I run my hands down my face as I stand up, groaning. I was hoping that this conversation would go better, but it didn’t go as bad as it could have.
In time, she might calm down and hopefully she’ll come back. I don’t know if she’ll stay long enough to talk to me or just pack her things and leave, but I can’t believe that this is the end of us.
Sighing, I grab another set of car keys and head for the garage.
There’s someone else I owe the truth.
I stand in front of Dave’s tombstone, trying to figure out how to tell him that I love his daughter.
The words don’t seem to come easily, even though they are the truth.
In the time that I’ve known her, the little spitfire has captured my heart, even if she’s stomping all over it right now.
It’s nothing that I don’t deserve.
“You would be proud of her.” I kneel in front of the grave and pick away the moss that’s starting to grow over his name. “She’s hell on wheels. I’ve never seen someone so small so angry with me.”
I chuckle to myself, though the pit in the bottom of my stomach only grows larger.
“If you were here, I never would have fallen for her the way I did.”
I take a deep breath and run my hand through my hair as the sky turns gray with clouds drifting in front of the sun.
“At least, I like to pretend that I wouldn’t have, but I love her. It feels like there’s this thread drawn between us, tethering us to each other.”
Loving Kendall is inevitable, in this world and all others.
17
KENDALL
Myheartfeelslikeit’s being ripped from my chest as I park the car at an empty park. I slam my hand on the wheel, anger flowing through me.
I can’t believe that he lied to me all this time. I can’t believe that he let me fall in love with him.
He broke my heart. That stupid, frail little thing that I was foolish enough to hand over to him willingly.
Evan is the first person I have ever given the power to break me, and break me he did.
That’s the last time I make that mistake.
