Chapter 124

　　Hailey's POV

　　But hurt did not vanish just because it became explainable.

　　Brandson pulled back enough to look at me. "Today ends it."

　　I nodded.

　　"No matter what," he said, "you don't stand alone again, not in that room, not anywhere."

　　I wanted to believe that with my whole chest.

　　So I di...