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I’m drained when my shift ends, and I ask him to close with Mikey, so I can shower. I slide into bed without waiting for him to come up.
When he does, he wraps his arms around me, as always.
“I wasn’t sure you’d come home tonight,” I whisper into the darkness.
His arm twitches, his body stiffening against mine. “What?”
“It seems you’re doing everything in your power to avoid me.”
His lips trickle down my neck. “I love you, Sierra. You believe me, right?”
I nod.
“Whatever you’re gathering in that pretty little head of yours, it’s not what you think.”
“Why are you being sketchy?”
“I’m working it out. I promise.”
“Let me help you.”
“You being here helps me.”
I’m too exhausted to argue.
29
Maliki
This has to stop.
Sierra is breaking down with each day I carry on this lie.
She hardly speaks to me in the morning.
I feel like a piece-of-shit boyfriend.
No, Iama piece-of-shit boyfriend.
What happened after the mall trip proved this will only get worse.
I’m still pissed about Jessa’s sleepover attempt, causing me to look like a jackass in front of Molly. No exaggeration, I declined sixteen times.
I was fuming the rest of the way home.
It got worsewhenI got to the bar and saw the crestfallen look on Sierra’s face.
The words are sitting on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t set them free.
I almost did last night, but it wasn’t the right time.
The right place.
The right way.
I can’t do it while she’s slinging drinks.
I can’t do it after she’s wiped out from a long night.
