Chapter Forty-One

Max

I know I shouldn’t be doing this.

Kissing her is wrong. So wrong. Frankly, I don’t even know why I decided to come all the way here. Somewhere in the back of my mind, there was a voice telling me I was making a terrible mistake. Nothing good could come of indulging in my deepest desires, especially during a full moon. I should have stopped myself when I had the chance. If I had just stayed put, this wouldn’t happen. I wouldn’t be here.

But telling someone about all of this felt damn good. I was keeping it all in for too long. Not having anyone to talk to was driving me crazy. What’s the point of telling someone who already knows, which in this case would be Veronica? And frankly, she doesn’t like talking about this either. She always avoids the topic whenever I try to bring it up. I guess that for her, it was harder because her mother did this to us. She wasn’t my mother, so although I was upset at the time, my feelings weren’t hurt.

What I’m trying to say is that I didn’t expe