Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home (Magnolia Parks Universe, #3)

by Jessa Hastings

It made it easier to walk away from BJ in the moment, because Julian needed me. But actually, quietly, I probably would have gone to Julian in an instance like that no matter what. It’s nice to be needed sometimes. BJ doesn’t need me, I don’t think. I need him but it’s not the other way around, it never has been. All my life, he was all I had in so many ways. More than just my boyfriend and my best friend and my protector and my confidant, I needed him because when he was gone I felt horribly alone. But he didn’t. He’s never needed me, not with his functional family with his loving parents and siblings coming out of his eyeballs, and all his aunts and uncles and grandparents who are sober and checked in, who love him very overtly and very loudly. All the time, at his rugby games, when he did well at school, on his birthday — they were there for him how you need your family to be. He didn’t need much from me. Actually, I think the only thing he’s ever really needed from me was — well — he met that need with someone else in a bathtub one night.