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My everything.
If something’s wrong, I fix it.
“Is everything okay?” I ask. “You sound—”
“What?”
I shake my head. “Are you really okay? Did therapy…?”
“Therapy was fine.”
She’s answering too quickly. Too abruptly.
“Kaelyn, what’s going on?”
“Nothing.” She forces brightness into her voice. “I can’t wait to meet Ollie. What time am I supposed to be there?”
“Whenever.”
“Should I bring something?”
“No.”
She pauses. I wait for her to come clean. To explain why my chest feels hollow and alarm bells are clanging in my ears.
She doesn’t.
“I’ll see you then, Kastle,” she says.
And then she hangs up on me.
Twenty-One
Kaelyn
I didn’t tell Kastle about his mom kicking me and Brenna out of the building. I didn’t tell him about Amelia’s taunting texts or my decision to beat her when I saw them.
I kept it to myself.
For him.
Always for him.
I don’t want Kastle to feel like he has to choose between me and his family. To feel responsible for the damage Amelia’s done. He has a habit of taking his family’s sins on his shoulders and wearing them like a cloak of shame tailor-made for him.
I refuse to put him in that position.
This is not his fault.
This is my problem.
There’s more. You know that’s not the only reason.
Maybe not.
I don’t care. That’s the only reason that counts.
Kastle calls me in the morning.
