CHAPTER HUNDRED AND NINETEEN

She was asking him for the impossible, the one thing he couldn't give her.

He couldn't begin to imagine opening his mouth and letting the shit he's kept bottled up inside him for years flying out of his mouth to her audience.

There was no weighing it, he was undisputably sure she would leave his ass by the time he was done with spilling how fucked up he is to the last person that needs to hear it.

There was too much pain and hurt buried under all the years that had swept past, so much hate and spite that he never thought he'd recover from, best left forgotten.

He pushed his fingers through his hair, trying to stay the haunting memories and failing.

He'd been fucked over as a kid, but he'd gone and done his own fair share of fucking up by looping her into his mess with clear intentions of hurting her even if that had been only designed to hurt her father in the first place.

But the point was, he'd brought her into all this and this relationship they had going on, though beautiful and fr