right, but I didn’t want to believe it.” I lift my head and look at him,
cracking a pitiful smile. “You can say,
‘I told you so’
now.”
His eyebrows draw together, like my words somehow hurt him. “Lily,
this is not something I wanted to be right about. I prayed every day that I
was wrong about him.”
I wince. I shouldn’t have said that to him. I know better than to think
Atlas would ever think something like
I told you so
.
He squeezes my shoulder and leans forward, kissing the top of my head.
I close my eyes as I soak up the familiarity of him. His smell, his touch, his
comfort. I’ve never understood how someone can be so rock solid, yet
comforting. But that’s always how I’ve viewed him. Like he could
withstand anything, but somehow still feels the weight that everyone else
carries.
I don’t like that I was never fully able to let go of him, no matter how
hard I tried. I think about the fight with Ryle over Atlas’s phone number.
The fight about the magnet, the article, the things he read in my journal,
the tattoo. None of that would have happened if I would have just let go of
Atlas and thrown it all away. Ryle wouldn’t have had anything to be so
upset with me about.
I pull my hands up to my face after that thought, upset that there’s a
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