On the inside, I was hyperventilating. After all these years, I still couldn’t escape Nick no matter how hard I tried. He would always haunt me as long as I let him, but I didn’t know how to let him go either. Well, not him per se, but what I went through when I was with him. Uh! Why couldn’t my life be simple?
The way that Joel was staring at me like I was some wounded animal probably hurt me more than everything else combined. I was fragile to him, though I could understand why he saw me that way. After all, what did I do to show him any different? As mad as I wanted to be at him, I couldn’t be mad at anyone but myself. This is why I couldn’t be happy because I wouldn’t be able to ever let myself be happy.
Joel wrapped his arms around me like vines e
