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Riley let out a happy squeal, and a laugh bubbled from
my chest. “Wait, are you still dropping out this semester?”
There was only one semester left. My last one. Four
more months and I’d be done. Have a Harvard degree in
my hand, proof that I had accomplished what I had set out
to do.
Four years ago, Harvard was my dream.
Now?
Maddox was the destination I longed for. “He needs me
here,” I said.
A week ago, Maddox practically threw me out of his life.
Granted, yes, I walked away first. But now? Well, I had
come to my senses.
I was done with all the lies. And the secrets. I was tired
of hiding and walking away from the man I promised to
never give up on. It was time to put an end to it.
Maddox had been silently fighting for me… and I had
been doing the same. Except, we were too stubborn to
admit it. Too prideful.
All this time, he had been protecting me.
And I thought I was protecting him.
But we both fucked up…
“Riley, you always ask me why I left Maddox. The reason
why I was so adamant about staying away from him…”
She sighed. “Yes?”
“I saw it in his eyes that day,” I confessed quietly, my
grip on the phone growing tighter. “That look. Maddox
never thought about having children. I knew he always
thought he’d be a bad father. He was going to walk away
from Bianca and the baby. I found out he was going to pay
Bianca off. He didn’t want anything to do with the
pregnancy or the baby. He didn’t think he could be a father,
and I needed him to realize that he was capable of being
one. On his own. Without being dependent on me to show
him the way, to teach him how to do it.”