**Jake POV**
It has been two days since I last saw Tillie. Every fiber of my being aches to be with her, but with Tyler being sick and the shop being slammed, I haven’t been able to make it back to her house. We text and Facetime regularly, but it just isn’t the same as having her in my arms. My heart still breaks when I think about the fact she hid something so big from me. Something bigger than her leaving for college. She was raped by the person I hate most on this planet and she didn’t tell me until we had our big fight. For eleven years she forced herself to carry the weight of guilt, shame, and betrayal instead of telling me so I could fix it. I told her my job is, was, and always will be to protect her, but I failed to do that and that guilt is eating away at me. The best thing I c
