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Her lips part ready to say something, but no words escape.
Lifting her hands, she angrily swipes at her wet cheeks, nothing but pain oozing from her.Her spine straightens, and I prepare for the blow that she’s about to deliver when a pounding starts on my bedroom door, saving me from the heartache of what she was going to say.
It’s wrong.
I deserve every single word she has for me.
But apparently, now isn’t the time.
“Abi?” Liv shouts. “I think we need to talk, don’t you?” she teases.
My stomach knots up painfully, if only this wasthatkind of situation.
They probably think I rushed to shut Theo out so he wouldn’t see anything good. Unfortunately, there is nothing good here. Only pain, grief, and a boatload of regrets.
Despite her friend being on the other side of the door, Abigail’s eyes never leave mine.“You need to leave,” she whispers.
My heart fractures in my chest as I take a step back.
There’s no point fighting, trying to plead my innocence. She watched my reaction, probably felt it even more viscerally than my touch in the moments before Theo’s interruption.
I hold her eyes, hoping that she can read everything I’m feeling but even if she can, she doesn’t respond to it.
“I’m sorry, Abi. I’m really fucking sorry.” And with those words hanging in the air, I slip out of the room and come face to face with a three-woman firing squad.
“Fuck,” I mutter under my breath.
“I swear to fucking God, Elliot Eaton. If you?—”
“Raine,” Tally hisses, cutting off what I’m sure was going to be a painful threat from Theo’s girl.
“I haven’t done anything,” I confess, but even as the words slip past my lips, I can’t help but wonder how true they are.
Something tells me that I may have done more harm than good when it comes to Abigail.
“Are you together?” Tally asks hopefully.
“No,” I blurt a little too forcefully than I meant to, making all three of them frown in disappointment.
“But Theo said he found you?—”
“It was a mistake. We were watching a movie and?—”
“You were watching a movie? In your room? With Abi?” Liv asks, looking totally perplexed.
“Yes,” I state. “What about that is so hard to understand?”
She shakes her head. “I… Nothing. Is she okay?”
My breathing falters as I realise that I don’t have a decent or convincing enough answer to that question.“She’s… She’ll be okay. It’s just going to take time. Excuse me,” I say, slipping past the three of them.
I might be escaping them, but I’m more than aware that I’m about to walk head-first into the next inquisition.
“Can we go in?” Liv calls to me as I descend the stairs.
I want to say no. I never let anyone in my room.
It’s my inner sanctuary. The only place where I can truly escape the drama that always seems to surround my life.
