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Mom shook her head and dropped her hands from her hips, but there was a softness in her eyes "Honestly, Riley, when are you going to let all this pain and bitterness go? Yes, you were hurt in the worst possible way, and it breaks ift from it all You know that You’re a wonderfulon to this pain and keeping others out That’s not a good example for Bryony You need a friend, sweetheart It’s tiens, he’s a really good kid"

Well, crap That was low Bringing Bryony into it I made sure never to let her ears hear about the past and what I went through I wanted her safe fro I could to make her life happy and complete

"That’s not fair Bryony doesn’t know any of this"

Moe She will one day realize that you’re carrying bitterness and hurt And that you build walls around yourself She’ll learn to do the saht, and , I couldn’t live with myself I was in self-preserve h, it was the only way I could deal I didn’t trust easily Or at all But that didn’t mean I wanted Bryony to live like e that? He’s not going to becoot a football tea to hiuilt, I finished in ht was unfair I wanted hiuilty He should

"You don’t know that Give hio listen to him simply because if I didn’t, my mother wouldn’t shut up about it for weeks Possibly ain after tonight He ht not be at the top of the list of the people I hated, but he was on the list

"Fine," I sighed in defeat and turned to go back to the living roo Brady had just left

He hadn’t

There he stood with his hands in his jeans pockets, looking my way Our eyes locked, and I saw uncertainty there He still wasn’t sure if he believed me I didn’t care if he did I didn’t care if anyone did That was all history

"We can talk, but not here I don’t want Bryony waking up and hearing anything"

He nodded "Understood Want to take a drive?"

No I wanted to go soak in a bath and forget he had come over

Continue On with Your Crown of Sainthood

CHAPTER 8

BRADY

Riley looked like she was preparing to walk through a fire She did not want to be out here within h the thin walls Not that I was trying to, but Riley was talking loud, and she had been pissed

The way she had talkedas it got She had moved on and wanted to put this behind her The fact that her mother said she needed a friend made my chest hurt I’d never been without a friend But Riley had lived the past two years without one