Suddenly, Rosa turned to me and asked, “How long have you two been together?”“Huh?” I muttered incoherently as I nearly lost my footing. “With Ethan,” she said. “How old is your relationship?”“We’ve been together for five months now,” I said. “Oh, that’s not even so long,” she said, waving her h
Getting to the summit was easy enough. Getting back down, however, was an entirely different story. By the time Ethan and I got back down to the cabin, we were both exhausted and sweating profusely. Walking down at an incline was so much harder than walking up. And my ankles were screaming by then
“That’s stupid,” I said. “Lots of men take bubble baths.”“And yet here you are with a man who only takes cold showers,” he said. “If I was a bubble bath guy, you wouldn’t even look at me twice.”I so wanted to argue with him about that, but then something else popped into my head. “Ethan?”“Hm?”“
From the sounds of it, Ethan wasn’t back yet. He would have woken me up if he was back. I turned off the music then drained the bathtub before I hopped into the shower to wash off the oils and get some feel back in my arms and legs. My palms had wrinkled up from being in the water for so long, and I
ETHANIt took a while before Liv finally calmed down and fell asleep in the living room. I sat beside her the entire time, stroking her hair and telling her the most random stories until her breathing changed and she calmed down enough to sleep off. That was when I went back outside to the truck an
And worst of all, I’d let Olivia down. I was supposed to make her feel safe, but I failed even at that. What kind of man couldn’t keep his partner safe? If she couldn’t feel safe around me, then what exactly was my purpose? I slowly dragged myself out of the car after switching off my phone and thr
“Happy?” I asked. “Tell me a story,” she said. “I need to fall asleep again.”I furrowed my brows for a bit before I finally spoke. “Once upon a time, there was a little caterpillar named Alfred,” I began. “Alfred was the strangest creature in the entire meadow, and he was always seen as the odd o
"You fucking bastard! So you've been cheating on me with my best friend this entire time?"I never thought I would say those words in my life. The idea that Marcus would ever cheat on me never even crossed my mind. We were always so happy together, or at least we used to be in the beginning. Now, I
“Happy?” I asked. “Tell me a story,” she said. “I need to fall asleep again.”I furrowed my brows for a bit before I finally spoke. “Once upon a time, there was a little caterpillar named Alfred,” I began. “Alfred was the strangest creature in the entire meadow, and he was always seen as the odd o
And worst of all, I’d let Olivia down. I was supposed to make her feel safe, but I failed even at that. What kind of man couldn’t keep his partner safe? If she couldn’t feel safe around me, then what exactly was my purpose? I slowly dragged myself out of the car after switching off my phone and thr
ETHANIt took a while before Liv finally calmed down and fell asleep in the living room. I sat beside her the entire time, stroking her hair and telling her the most random stories until her breathing changed and she calmed down enough to sleep off. That was when I went back outside to the truck an
From the sounds of it, Ethan wasn’t back yet. He would have woken me up if he was back. I turned off the music then drained the bathtub before I hopped into the shower to wash off the oils and get some feel back in my arms and legs. My palms had wrinkled up from being in the water for so long, and I
“That’s stupid,” I said. “Lots of men take bubble baths.”“And yet here you are with a man who only takes cold showers,” he said. “If I was a bubble bath guy, you wouldn’t even look at me twice.”I so wanted to argue with him about that, but then something else popped into my head. “Ethan?”“Hm?”“
Getting to the summit was easy enough. Getting back down, however, was an entirely different story. By the time Ethan and I got back down to the cabin, we were both exhausted and sweating profusely. Walking down at an incline was so much harder than walking up. And my ankles were screaming by then
Suddenly, Rosa turned to me and asked, “How long have you two been together?”“Huh?” I muttered incoherently as I nearly lost my footing. “With Ethan,” she said. “How old is your relationship?”“We’ve been together for five months now,” I said. “Oh, that’s not even so long,” she said, waving her h
I hated to say it, but I despised Rosa. I knew I was supposed to be nice to her, and I truly wanted to make her feel safe around us, especially if Ethan was right and her husband was an asshole. But it was so hard to put a smile on my face and continue to act like everything was fine when I could t
“Hold on,” I said, remembering something. I opened my backpack and grabbed the camera inside, and I pulled him close so I could take a picture. He glared at me, but I brushed it aside and wrapped my arm around his waist. “I thought we said no technology,” he said. “We said no phones,” I replied. “