CHAPTER 26

‘So, I look in your direction

But you pay me no attention, do you?

I know you don't listen to me

because you say you see straight through me

Don't you?’

“Honey, I’m home!”

Daisy’s voice broke the deathly silence surrounding her. Everly pulled the covers over her head. She didn’t want to talk to anybody or see anybody or even remember there were other people in the world.

Unfortunately, Daisy had other ideas… And Lennon, of course. He kept calling her. At some point, she was going to have to find the courage to talk to him, but not now... It was too soon and she was feeling too weak. And too ashamed.

If only she’d listened to her gut on this one. Not to go to Boston. Not to go to bed with him. Not to fall in love with him. She’d known that getting involved with someone would be a stupid idea, as broken and flawed as she was. But she did it anyway.

Daisy got into Everly’s bedroom.

“There you are! I needed to make sure you were okay,” she said,