Ryder says Rooney came here because she’s going through a rough patch, and while I don’t know what’s going on, I know she didn’t seem like herself, either. And that’s what turned me inside out, what made me throw her suitcase in my trunk and drive her to the house. I wasn’t thinking. I was reacting. Because after I nudged her out of the A-frame, it felt like my heart was splintering in my chest. I stared at her profile as she peered up at the house, that honey-blonde hair just past her shoulders, wind-whipped and dancing, like the breeze couldn’t help but slip its cool fingers through those
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