My voice caught in my throat. He only knew the side of me he’d seen. He’d never know the true me. No one would. “I don’t want you to think that my life is perfect, Brayden. It’s so far from that. Things have happened to me. Horrible things. Things that have changed my family so much. My life isn’t all that meets the eye, either. I don’t expect you to be anyone but yourself. Nothing is perfect. I know that. You should know that I don’t expect you to be anything you aren’t.”
