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Now—almost a year since the tragic day—Grant still comes over every Sunday to make sure the take-out boxes are picked up and the trash is taken out, that she’s taking care of herself and the house isn’t falling apart. And to kiss her on the cheek before he leaves and tell her he loves her.
wait.... Oh my god :'(
I’m not an unreasonable person. But when that sour-basement, dirty-mop-water smell hits me, I’m in that room again. I am in that room, screaming. I’m pleading to get out.
Damn girl what happened to you
He’s always been the type of guy who will comment on the waitress’s backside or the nice rack on the blonde news anchor. It’s the kind of passive comment designed to make any other woman in his company feel lesser-than.
God i hate men like this
Oh, no, Finn Holmon. This is not how this will go. She will not take no for an answer.
This is dangerous
“You think I’m stupid?” he screams, and now Avery is crying. He stands and grabs the back of my hair, forcing me up, pushing me toward the stairs to the basement.
Lucas kinney count your fucking days
“You said, ‘Offer’s open,’” he says. Then, they just look at each other. “I did,” she finally says, and he grabs the sides of her face and kisses her, almost violently. They stumble through the bathroom door and lock it behind them.
Oh paige...... :/
I look through my phone for Lucas’s number. It’s buried there somewhere from when he moved in, and I shoot him a text telling him Georgia can pick up Avery at Paige and Grant’s place when she gets back and could he please let her know as I don’t have her number.
Well. Georgia is officially fucked
My name is Nicola Dawson, and I’m finally realizing that I’ll never be her again.
Bro wtf.....
And then, when I make it to the fourth stair down, I feel the blunt force of his heel between my shoulder blades and the searing burn as my breath leaves my lungs. I don’t tumble, grasping the railing or searching for my bearings, I fly and land on the concrete floor with a crack that sounds like breaking bones.
HOLY FUCK IM ABOUT TO CRY
She doesn’t feel one bit bad about smashing Finn Holmon’s car window.
I KNEW IT
She pulls it out and smells it, even though it’s long dead and the petals are dried and brittle.
Paige ur scaring me.....
“When you want me to, you let me know,” he says. He could say this coldly, but he doesn’t. He could let the sting of rejection cause him to storm out, or give up on her, or lash out, or a variety of other very human reactions to her constant difficult behavior, but he never does. He goes to her, kisses the top of her head, and lets himself out.
Grant you wonderful man :(
“Maybe you lent it to one of your girlfriends and forgot.”
GET HIS ASS CORA
“I’m not Georgia. He wanted to make sure my family couldn’t find me, no one I loved could trace me, so...” Cora closes her eyes and shakes her head, a compassionate and empathetic gesture, and then takes me in her arms and hugs me tight. “Oh, sweet girl. I’m so sorry.” She holds me for a long time and then says, “Nicola, I’ll be back soon.”
ILY CORA AND NICOLA
“Oh, my God!” Mia’s voice says. “Call—Oh, my—Jesus, call for help.” And then sirens are heard in the background.
MIA?!?!
“He threatened to tell Lucas that the baby I was pregnant with wasn’t his,”
HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS
I pull away from the restaurant and drive back to my lonely house.
Cora you are a GOOD person :'( and you deserve so much better than the shitty hand you've been dealt
“Going somewhere?” I joke. He looks at his house and back to me. There is a kindness in his eyes. It’s not pity. It’s maybe something mixed with a recognition of what could have been and an apology for the something that was between us.
I'm happy for paige but simultaneously devastated for cora
They act like they’re doing me a favor, reuniting us or something, when they open the door and he steps into the lobby. I want to cup my mouth with one hand and yell, You can keep him! I almost chuckle because it’s funny to me. Maybe funny because it’s so new. My desperate need to cling to him my entire adult life has not only dissolved but become hard and bitter. Exactly where I should have been long ago. It feels...invigorating.
ILY CORA
“You think I’m a...what? A murderer! And you put me in fucking jail because you’re pissed. That’s way more psycho than me having an affair.” “Zzz,” I add. “What?” “Just making affair plural. Affairzzz
SKDMSNDSJXKSN SHE'S SUCH A QUEEN
“You said they let Lucas out. What are you talking about? He was arrested last night. On major charges.”
OH FUCKKKK
And then I see Paige walking down the stairs in a bathrobe with her wet hair plastered to the sides of her face, carrying a shotgun.
GET HIMMMMM
She looks back at me and Avery, who’s still screaming and red in the face. She turns to Lucas, and without one word, she pulls the trigger. A spot of red blooms on his chest and expands, and then he falls to the ground, soundlessly.
FUCK YEAH PAIGE
Paige rushes to my side and puts her arms around me. I know they will separate us to ask questions, so I grip her hand tightly and look in her eyes. “I shot him. I had to.” She gives a slight nod of her head and squeezes my hand back. “You had to,” she agrees. “It’s over,” I say again and again, on my hands and knees in the muddy earth. “It’s over.”
[nicole kidman voice] THE POWER OF WOMEN
