I stood frozen in the corridor of a hotel, and I just couldn’t make my legs work. She was gone. Did that even change anything? I still couldn’t trust him. Without trust, there could be nothing more and it didn’t change what he had done. She might be awful, but he still cheated on her. He still used me, then discarded me time and again. Just because he had finally woken up to who she was, it didn’t erase the pain he had caused me.
“Rylie, say something, please.”
“There’s nothing to say, Luca. It’s too little too late.”
“Please, there’s so much you don’t know. I wanted to tell you it all. That’s why I brought you back here. Then you got so angry with me, and I knew then that everything I had dared to hope was true. That you love me. I know you do, Rylie. Even if you leave now, you can’t s
