Stronger
“"I just want to get home. I'm freezing," I snap. He doesn't let go of my sleeve.
"It's hitting you pretty hard," he says. "I was wondering when that was going to happen." I yank loose from him, but what he said irritates me enough to spin on him. A good battle might use up some of the fear-induced adrenaline racing through me.
"What are you talking about?" "It just hit you that you're getting divorced, didn't it?" His voice is so damn inviting and warm on this cold street. "Do you... actually love that guy?" I snort. "Not anymore." "Then you're afraid of him." His statement hits me like an iron mallet, right on the head. I get that Aidan doesn't mean it as an attack, but to be so dead-on accurate, it feels like he's calling for war and it brings me out swinging. "Sometimes you just think you know everything, Aidan, but you don't. And you don't know a damn thing about this." "Oh my gosh--that is it, isn't it? You're afraid of him." "I'm not afraid of anything." I turn away and resume a slippery clip toward home.MoreLess
"It's hitting you pretty hard," he says. "I was wondering when that was going to happen." I yank loose from him, but what he said irritates me enough to spin on him. A good battle might use up some of the fear-induced adrenaline racing through me.
"What are you talking about?" "It just hit you that you're getting divorced, didn't it?" His voice is so damn inviting and warm on this cold street. "Do you... actually love that guy?" I snort. "Not anymore." "Then you're afraid of him." His statement hits me like an iron mallet, right on the head. I get that Aidan doesn't mean it as an attack, but to be so dead-on accurate, it feels like he's calling for war and it brings me out swinging. "Sometimes you just think you know everything, Aidan, but you don't. And you don't know a damn thing about this." "Oh my gosh--that is it, isn't it? You're afraid of him." "I'm not afraid of anything." I turn away and resume a slippery clip toward home.MoreLess
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