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Chapters (58)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. CHAPTER THREE
  6. CHAPTER FOUR
  7. CHAPTER FIVE
  8. CHAPTER SIX
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT
  11. CHAPTER NINE
  12. CHAPTER TEN
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  21. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  22. CHAPTER TWENTY
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  32. CHAPTER THIRTY
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  42. CHAPTER FORTY
  43. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  52. CHAPTER FIFTY
  53. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  55. RESOURCES
  56. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  57. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  58. What’s next onyour reading list?

Gray sighs again, and I swear I feel that shit in my soul. “Maybe tearing it all down wasn’t the worst thing. Nothing good would ever come from the lies. So either you sped up the inevitable, or you have the chance to build something that’s actually solid.”

“Yeah, maybe,” I say, even though I don’t really believe it.

“I’m glad you called, Rid. Let’s do something this weekend. Pick a cool spot to eat. We’ll see a movie and go out to dinner after.”

“Sure,” I say, pretending not to notice that she’s giving me something concrete to look forward to, a goal to reach. She read a bunch of self-help-type books a few years back—once she figured out what a mess I was—and decided I would benefit from concrete goals and plans. She’s been not so subtle about doing it ever since.

“All right, let me know how it goes. I expect a text every day with an update.”

“Yes, Grayson,” I say, rolling my eyes at her and her goals.

It does weirdly help, though.

I set the phone down and then think better of it, scrolling to the last song Peak sent me. I put it on a loop and stay awake as long as I can, listening. And when I do fall asleep, I dream about butterflies.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Jubilee

“YOU HAVE TO tell your parents,” Jayla says. Nikki sits beside her, nodding in agreement.

I’m on my side on my bed, hugging my pillow and watching them paint their nails, while Captain Marvel saves the world on my TV. Nikki is going with pink; Jayla has gone for a brilliant yellow. I shut my eyes and try to forget about the fact that I basically broke up with both of my boyfriends this week, simultaneously. Not that I even realized I thought of them that way until after it was over, when I missed them so much I felt like I was losing it. Him—I missed him. I still can’t get used to Ridley and Bats being one.

“Well, actually, maybe she doesn’t have to tell them, unless he was really spying,” Nikki says, and even though I declared it a state of emergency on our call the other day, I really wish we could talk about anything but this now. “He said he wasn’t.”

I shift the pillow to cover my face as I roll over onto my back. I hate this. I hate that he lied to me this whole time, and I hate that I miss him so much I could scream. I should dislike him, like, as a person, probably forever. But I don’t.