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Where was freaking Billy? Why couldn’t he get the cow in? No one would miss him at the church. And why was I even going over? And why couldn’t I stop staring at her?
I was pathetic.
I’d been hurt too many times by this girl. She didn’t know about any of them. But my heart sure did.
Silas Dean Dupree and Clementine “Lemon” Laura Adams, to you, I leave Annaleise Nicole Dupree.
“I think you’re so in love with her that you can’t handle it if she turns you down. It would shatter you. So you’d rather never know. You’d rather live a safe, passionless life with someone who will never reject you.”
When she married that imbecile at the age of twenty, it had destroyed me. Cried so hard I puked.
That was the day I realized this love wasn’t going anywhere. It would be inside me until the day I died. The best I could do was avoid it.
Forget riding broncs, college exams, wrangling a class of middle school kids. At that moment, I knew I was about to begin the hardest test of my life.
The saying “the tongue has no bones but it can break a heart” pounded in my brain.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” I murmured into her hair. “I didn’t mean it. Please forgive me. Please.
