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382 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 24, 2019
“How many?”
“Don’t go there, ginger.”
“Don’t call me that. How many, Jake?”
“A lot.”
“Like in five, ten?”
I’m going to come clean, and then I’ll make it better. I’ll work to make it up to her every day. “Try fifty.”
“I disagree. I’ve been in love with you since first grade. I still am.”
I take a step away. “Don’t say that.”
“Why? Because it’s what you don’t want to hear? Because you’re afraid of the truth?”
“You can’t be in love with me.” Tears blur my vision. An old wound reopens even as he offered me comfort not a second ago. “Not if you’ve fucked fifty other women.”
“He winces as if I slapped him. “They didn’t mean a thing. I swear it to you.”
I can’t think about it. I can’t let him see how it affects me, because that will mean I care. “It doesn’t matter.”
“So you said, but it obviously does.”
I turn for Noah, but he grabs my arm.
“I don’t even know their names.”
“Let me go. I don’t want to hear it.”
“Yes, you do. Every single time I fucked one of those nameless, faceless women, it was you I thought about, you who crowded my head.”
I kmow I'm scum. Kristi deserves better