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I’m not going to pull your dead body out of the ocean when you drown.”
But I hated backing down to Conrad. I hated losing to him. “Are you gonna stop me?”
When our mom died, he changed. Conrad didn’t give two shits about anything or anyone anymore. I wondered if that included Belly.
No matter how many times he hurt her, I knew that if he wanted her back, she was his. She always had been.
We all lost Beck. Feeling sorry for yourself isn’t helping anything.”
“I wish Susannah was my mother and not you.”
“Why didn’t you come see me after my mom died?” I stuttered, “I d-d-did, I came to the funeral.” Jeremiah’s gaze on me was steady, unblinking. “That’s not what I mean.”
It wasn’t enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them that you cared. And he just didn’t. Not enough.
I didn’t exist to him anymore, and despite everything I’d said, that made me want to die.
I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I’ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.
