Redeeming 6: Boys of Tommen #4

“You’re only eighteen,” he bit back, tears filling his eyes.
“I don’t want this life for you.”

“He’s only eighteen,” I shot back, trembling.
“And he
is
my life, Dad.
He’s my life and I’m
his

Every time I try to reach out to you, every time I try to pay you any sort of attention, you immediately go on the attack.”

“Maybe I wouldn’t if the experience wasn’t so fucking foreign to me.”

“I’m not your sister.”

“You know this is the same bridge, right?”
she sobbed, holding onto my body for dear life.
“The same fucking spot, Joey!”

No.

I didn’t know that.

“Nobody was there to stop her,” she continued, crying hard and ugly.
“Nobody was there to stop my sister, but I’m here now.
I’m here to stop my best friend’s brother from following my sister!”