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CHAPTER SEVENTY
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2024-10-29 19:42:56She curled into his arms, listening patiently for the words that'd finally fix the distorted picture of everything she's carried around with her.
She waited for the truth.
His hand caressed her, but he looked miles away from her.
Absent, lost in his own head.
Anger, hurt, they were the most dominant of the emotions flirting on his face when she dared to look.
"Haven't you taken a look, at least once since yesterday, and wondered why I don't look the same as the boy you knew?"
She wanted to deny it but he was looking at her like he already knew the answer and she couldn't get the lie out.
"I have."
He said, looking away from her, like it was too painful looking at her while admitting it.
She was hurting for him, but there was nothing she could do to free him from the memories he was digging up himself.
If anything, she should be happy that he was finally sharing, willing to tell her all of it.
The good, the bad and the
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JoJo couldn't control her tears anymore.She'd imagined anything else but not this.The horror of the whole story was disturbing enough, but knowing he'd been there, had watched all this happen, it was hurt too much.She took his face in her hands, kissing all over it, telling him that it was okay.She could taste the saltiness of tears, he'd cried telling her this.And he'd kept going."They took me out and I was well in the ambulance before I finally blacked out. I don't know how long I was out for, before I came to in the hospital."They said it was days, but it felt like forever. My face stung badly and I thought it must have been cuts from the accident. I knew something was wrong though, because everybody looked at me different, they talked different too."You know, the kinda talk you give someone whose been diagnosed with a terminal disease. I was prepared to hear any fucking thing from them but nobody said anything. My father wa
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It was another hour before either of them was ready to leave the bed.They were messy from their intense love making but it didn't matter to JoJo because it was the most beautiful love making she's ever experienced.It was different from he rest and in every thrust, she felt the love she'd been too scared to accept from this epitome of perfection of a man.He didn't look so sad anymore and while she knew that the things he'd told her were things they'd have to deal with for the rest of their lives, she hoped she'd be all that he'd need.He carried her back into the bathroom for another round of bathing and love making.Their bag did get delivered later that morning and they got ready to go see his father in the hospital.JoJo did call back home to speak with Riley and ask about her mom.It was funny that her own sister was more concerned about Jordan than she was about her."Where's Jordan? Is he there with you? How's he and wh
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