Tomorrow I will decide who I want to tell.
Liam will have to accept I’m the one who gets to decide that.All fight has left me, so I let him think I agree.
What I’m more aware of is how Liam, like always, will stay silent, thinking his love confession is enough.
It’s not.
He hasn’t asked me to stay here and live with him.Hasn’t said that I’m his girl or asked if I’ll be his.
I would go to prison for this woman.
But he won’t make a commitment.
If I tell mom, she’ll insist I return to Fort Worth, but they all need to realize I’m a grown woman, and those decisions are mine to make.
If I’m right about what I saw deep in Liam’s gaze, then when Jayden returns home, this will be over.I suspect it is already.
The pain medicine kicks in, and I start drifting into sleep with dread for tomorrow.It feels like D-day, which I guess had to happen, eventually.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
LIAM
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Ican’t let Jessiego.
I don’t know how to do this—how to tell Jayden that I love his sister, and she is the most important thing in my life.How to break my lifelong promise to him, while explaining it doesn’t change how I feel about him as my best friend.
How to navigate the entire family and their views on us being together while not hurting Jessie.
Because she is mine.
She is fucking mine, and after seeing her near that piece of shit, Bonito, I’m never taking my eyes off her.
Yes, I know I’ll eventually calm down.Maybe in 2050.Can’t see it happening any earlier.
