“Will you stop it?” I say, jumping up to tend to him. “If you pop a stitch, Laura is going to kill you.” “Well, come on. That’s funny.” “What’s so funny about Garrett humiliating me?” “It’s Garrett,” he says, as if it shouldn’t be surprising at all. “You two have been picking on each other for fifteen years. Now you want to have a relationship with him and you think things will be different. Honey, people don’t change just because your relationship has.” “Well, he lied to me, and it’s way more than a prank or a joke.” “I’m sorry,” he says, his stoic eyes set on me. “Don’t forgive him until he
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