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"Thank you Aunt Eht "Any tioodbye and take ely better, yet still soht of Grayson not knoho I a him the truth

I’m about to lay the pieces of my shattered heart at Grayson’s feet

I can only hope that he’ll still want me, despite the fact that I’m not whole

Chapter 18

~ Grayson ~

Huntley walks into the apartment and the look on her face concerns me Her face is red and her eyes are puffy I have no idea where she’s been but so has obviously upset her She closes the door behind her and walks over to me Her ar that uncoils in the pit of

"Where did you disappear to this ?" I ask quietly "I s out Are Brody and Demi here?"

"Yeah, they’re in Demi’s room Last tie and back up ather wearily as she takes my hand and leads me down the hallway to her room I close the door behindI had in stoo is now a?"

"I need…I need to tell you sos and I need you to letWhat you decide to do afterwards is your decision, ok?"

My heart starts racing wildly andup every possible worst-case-scenario I s hard and nod once, pushing her to continue

"Before I s happened that I’m not proud of, despite the fact that they were out ofand immature and Ithe tears that have started falling down her face "I dated a guy, Jake, for aluy at our school, and when he started paying attention to ot excited My dad died when I o, so it was justht the way Jake treated me was hoas supposed to be My moms’ boyfriends treated her the same way so it was all I knew about relationships"

I audibly grind irl? Why was no one around to protect her?

Huntley starts sobbing next to me I move to put my arm around her but she quickly evades my embrace and jumps off the bed "No," she says, "Wait until you know all of it, before you decide I’"

She paces the carpet in front of rab her and coet this off her chest in order to trust herself And me