“I broke up with him at his birthday party. Right then and there. If I had known…” Bash goes deathly still as I trail off. It’s almost as though he stops breathing. “You left me in that bathroom and—” “Gwen, just don’t.” But I don’t listen. “The way he spoke about you? The way he spoke to me? I went straight back to him and ended it on the spot.” “Gwen—” “I left,” I say, forging ahead. I want him to know. No, I need him to know. “I wasn’t even that far behind you. I thought maybe I could catch up. I tried to find y—” He sits up, spinning to face me, a pained look of fury on his face. “Gwen.
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