Adelaide had tried hard to befriend Nicole, but my girl could be jealous. I couldn’t reveal the truth of why I was indebted to her, it would mean revealing the one thing I had never told anyone. Nicole was my friend, despite what Adelaide thought. She constantly mentioned how Nicole looked at me “like she wanted to suck my dick.” More than once, she’d warned me that Nicole wanted to be more than friends with me, I’d laughed it off each time. Adelaide was everything to me, there was nothing that could shake my devotion to her. The moment I’d seen her bursting through the weeds in Calder Place.
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