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Sharing a house with her.
Letting her decorate it with all her girlie shit … but demanding she allow a few video game touches throughout the place.
It’s perfect timing. My lease expires in two months, and Josh’s girlfriend has been up his ass about him moving in with her.
Kyle goes on to give me price details and his contacts, and in the background, I hear Chloe say she’d love to have me as her neighbor.
There’s no stopping me from chuckling. “Looks like she’s more open to being my neighbor than she was with you when you moved in.”
Chloe hated Kyle then, and he took great pleasure in annoying her. He’d greet her with a cheerful morning every day, and she’d respond with either a, “Fuck you,” or the middle finger.
I love how she gave him so much shit and also how she managed to calm my brother down.
He needed someone to do that for him.
Like I need Carolina to be the calm to my chaos.
Us Lane boys tend to give our hearts to women nothing like us, who put us in our place and make it their mission to make us better men.
Excitement beams through me when we hang up.
Look at me.
Becoming a fucking grown-up.
27
Carolina
Today has beenthe hardest day of my life.
We sat in the dean’s office and shared our stories, exposing the scars James cut into us. I go last, tears at my eyes from listening to the stories, and break down harder at the reveal of my intimate life.
Never have I been flooded with so many emotions.
Anger. Sadness. Shame.
For so long, my fear circled around being judged, but the dean, she isn’t disgusted with me.
She’s disgusted with James.
Two hours later, she apologizes for James’s behavior and thanks us for our honesty. Asking what she planned to do with James is on the tip of my tongue, but I bite it back, letting it go for now.
I’m not sure anyone knows the answer to that yet.
“We did it,” Margie says with a low sigh when we walk out of the building.
“We did it,” I repeat, matching her sigh.
If you’d told me a week ago that I’d be here with Margie, giving James what he deserves, I would’ve said you were as nuts as him.
Rex, his love, brought out that strength in me.
I’ve always had it. I just needed the nudge to build it.
We leave the university and load into Margie’s car.
Where else do you go after you’ve told on your creep of a professor who’s also your husband? The store for wine, junk food, and frozen pizza.
