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A dull throb spread across and around my scars, and I
rubbed my chest, trying to alleviate the heavy pressure.
“Lila, you have to eat something.” Riley pushed the plate
of pasta in front of me. “Just a few bites.”
The smell of the pasta had bile rising in my throat, and I
choked on the sourness. My stomach churned with nausea.
Maddox loved pasta. Actually, he loved the pasta I made,
and I’d always make it for him, whenever he was feeling
down.
I pushed the plate away and stood up. “I’m not hungry.”
“You barely ate anything in the last few days! You’ve
already lost weight, babe. Just a few bites, at least,” she
tried to reason with me. “You’re going to make yourself
sick.”
Riley didn’t understand; she couldn’t. I didn’t want to
eat, drink… or sleep.
I just wanted to fade away, to cease to exist.
The gala was four days ago. My world fell apart four
days ago, and I still haven’t accepted that fact. How? Why?
WHY? I wanted to scream at him.
But I refused to see him, to look into his beautiful face
and let him hold me. To feed me his sorry excuses. I knew
I’d let him win. I knew I was weak for Maddox.
He’d tell me he was sorry… and I was going to forgive
him. He had that kind of power over me, and he proved to
be my downfall.
Maddox Coulter was my damnation.
He was a mistake I shouldn’t have made four years ago.
I should have never asked him to make that first pinky
promise. It was the beginning of the end, as far as I was
concerned. That was my mistake. That stupid pinky
promise.
Friends?
Friends.
My phone rang, for the fifth time, in the last ten
minutes. I glanced at it, even though I already knew who it