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But I didn’t.
Somewhere in the depths of my soul I wanted Fiona to chase me.
I wanted her to jump on my back.
I wanted her to get pissed at me.
Which was what she did.
Fiona was then on my back, clawing at the front of my shirt.
“Stop walking, Griffin. Talk to me. Please, just fucking talk to me.”
Her sweet voice growled in my ear.
I stopped walking.
She lowered herself down to her feet and away from me.
“I’m sorry, Riff,” she said. “I know you hate the subject. But you’ve never talked about it. Neither has Remi. I just don’t get it. Something happened. You two were sort of best friends. Then the bus accident. And you’ve been enemies ever since.”
I never felt so vulnerable in my life at that moment.
I didn’t want the floodgates of the memories to open up and attack me.
But here they were.
I turned around and looked down at Fiona.
I swallowed hard.
She gasped when she realized I had tears in my eyes.
She carefully reached up and touched my face.
Her thumbs gently pressed at the corners of my eyes.
Touching my tears.
“Riff,” she whispered.
“What?” I asked.
“It’s me. I’m standing right here. I’m looking right at you. We’ve broken every rule we made. We’ve shattered every boundary we had in place. We did that together. Not just me. Not just you. It’s okay, Riff. I’m not going anywhere. I just want to know everything. I want to love you more. I want to understand. I feel like it’s all my fault. Secretly all my fault. That I messed everything up. And I’ve been hiding it and holding it in and dancing around it for a long time. But here I am. In front of you. Vulnerable. In love…”
Fiona rolled her eyes.
I sucked in a shaky breath. “I’ll tell you exactly what happened that night, Fi.”
“Please.”
“I saved my best friend that night… but I somehow lost him anyway.”
Chapter Thirty-Two
RIFF
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