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And hope he understood.

The library empty on this early in the morning, and I passed through the stacks like a shadow until I got to the private study rooms. I closed the door behind me, and slumped down against it as I hit the call button in my phone while the tears started to trickle down my cheeks

“Hey gorgeous, you’re up early.”

His voice did it, and I started to cry.

“Hey, hey! Christina, what’s-”

“I need to tell you something.” I could feel the dagger twisting in my heart, and I wanted to just hang up right then, but I knew there was no avoiding this.

“Okay? What’s up?”

“I need to tell you something big.”

Tyler cleared his throat. “What is it, Christina.”

“I-”

I what? I cheated on you with my best friend? God I was awful.

“Chris, honey, what is it.”

I started to cry harder then, because I knew the second I said it, it was all going to change.

“Baby, what is it?”

“I’m horrible,” I said softly, feeling my breath hitch in my throat.

Tyler chuckled. “Honey, whatever it is-”

“I cheated on you.”

Silence.

Tyler went utterly silent on the phone, but I could practically hear hi seething with rage on the other end.

“Tyler-”

“Yeah don’t bother,” he growled roughly.

“No, wait! Please!” I sobbed. “It was-”

- Click -

I dropped the phone to the ground and sank my face into my hands, sobbing at the sound of him hanging up.

Chapter 28

Christina

And just like that, I was right back in that fucking hole I’d been in before. Just like that, it was over.

I cheated on you.

Yeah, I didn’t need to hear anything else after that. I didn’t need to hear the fucking details. What I needed to do was get in my car, drive to Boston, find the piece of shit fucking garbage who’d touched her and dismember him limb-from-limb. I wanted to destroy, to smash something beautiful, to tear down the world around me.

Instead, I grabbed a bottle of whiskey, went right to the guest house studio, and played. And I played fucking loudly. It was seven in the damn morning, but I didn’t care. I cracked the bottle, cranked that shit up, and just fucking played until my Goddamn fingers and ears bled. I didn’t care. Cause this shit hurt. It hurt in a way finding out about Rebecca an


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