forever can never be, Dex.” She choked back a sob, but this time I didn’t pull her to my chest like I had so many times before. She tried to cover her mouth with the back of her hand to hide her turmoil. “Yeah. You pack that bag and leave, you can bet it’ll never be.” She narrowed her eyes then, glared through her tears, and said, “Maybe one day you’ll overlook this, and we’ll be friends.” “Never happening, Keelani. Never in a million years.” My girl was stubborn. She still packed up that night and left me.
