“You dropped me so fast, Hayden. I didn’t know what the fuck I did or whether our relationship was even real because next thing I know, you were posting you were engaged! You can’t blame me for not greeting you with open arms. I spent so fucking long second-guessing whether our connection was genuine. Whether your feelings for me were genuine or whether you were just using me because it was convenient.” He squeezes his eyes shut, and his teeth dig into his rosy bottom lip so hard it turns white. “I wasn’t using you, and it wasn’t because it was convenient.”




