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Prologue

Sullivan

I spend all night letting yesterday’s events run through my mind Fuck, how could I have been so stupid? The hs,I still don’t understand how I didn’t see it before How could I have been so blind? What we had was real and I used her I broke her

I could see it in her beautiful blue eyes, the moment her heart cracked and shattered into a ht inside theut hurts just thinking about it I wish I could forget, but I won’t

We could have been happy, but it doesn’tI say will undo what’s already been done The only thing left to do now is figure out why our parents would have told us these lies about Harlow

After hiding out in et soone I don’t know if I can handle h with our plan and I did it anyway They believed her and I didn’t They were right and I rong, so terribly wrong I let everyone down, because I believed lies, solies

When I walk into the kitchen, I al at the kitchen table, talking about getting a new car

They stop talking when I enter I’rab so around, I find both Oliver and Banks looking down at their phones, apparently, they’re ignoring ain, but I don’t, it won’t do ood anyway

Instead, I continue putting ether as quickly as I can to escape the suffocating tension in the rooet back to my room so I caninback into the fridge, the buzzing ofme

I fish it out, hoping the entire time that maybe, justit as I swipe the screen to unlock it, disappointh the heart like an arrow

Tension coils in uys from school

I’ at the e when Oliver turns to et Marc’s e?” The tone of Oliver’s voice tells me instantly that whatever Marc sent hie