Chapter 313

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Hayden and I stood by the river, listening to the water while the wind whipped through the trees.

After a while, my legs started giving out. I was exhausted.

"What's wrong?" Hayden asked.

"I need to sit. My legs are sore," I admitted.

Without missing a beat, he scooped me up by the waist, carrying me over to a big rock like I weighed nothing. Even though he did stuff like this all the time, I still acted shy. "I can walk, you know."

He raised an eyebrow. "Didn't you just say your legs were sore? How're you gonna walk?"

I stuck out my tongue and let him win that one.

He set me down, then sat beside me, but b I could scoot closer, his arm hooked around my waist and pulled me right into his lap. What was he up to now?

I could ask, he whispered in my ear, "The

was there a more thoughtful boyfriend than

boyfriend," I said, giving him a quick kiss. But the second my lips touched his, something felt off. There was this faint trace of tobacco.

to the river by

"I won't smoke anymore.

"You don't

me, his

a weird sadness crept in. My chest tightened, and I felt that familiar sting of tears. "Hayden, you're the closest person I have now. Please... take care

of forever used to feel so distant, but suddenly,

his throat bobbing as he held me

hadn't finished. I'd stopped reading halfway through, unable to bring myself to

my parents' accident?" I asked, resting my

answering in a low voice, "It's

I'd break

said that, the thought of those pictures made me shudder. So instead, I asked

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you what?" he asked

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