Chapter 322

I curl up then, in my chair, tucking my face into my hands, completely overwhelmed by the realization that the best I’m ever going to get in Kent’s heart is second place.

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And I’m absolutely terrified by the realization that I want to be first. I want to mean more to him I want to mean the most.

Because maybe that’s what he is to…

But no. I shut down the thought, making my mind turn to other things. My brain trips over itself in its attempt to find something new to mull over, and cruelly – it turns to Ivan. To what he said yesterday that he offered me everything, and I’d picked an old, dead man over him. Someone who will never, ever love me.

And suddenly I feel just…horribly stupid.

had

this seriously

that could have been great – the equivalent big love that Kent and Lenai had for each other – because I wanted to have sex with Kent? Did I seriously, seriously choose that? Just because Kent is hotter than Ivan- because that, I can finally admit to myself is true – but seriously, am I just a stupid girl who followed a hot guy down a path that’s going to lead to

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panic a little bit now, pressing my hands over my imouth and

need, I realize, is a distraction. A big one. Because if I keep

oul.

of my face, making myself flick through the pages and concentrate on the lewd photographs and

eventually through a combination of forcing myself to concentrate, and willfully pushing away my questions. about how much Kent loved Lenai, and whether I’m an idiot. who is going to die because she was to sex–addled to

let myself be distracted from what are, arguably, the more important questions…I

truly engage with this literature, not matter how much Fiona encouraged me. Plus, I had stumbled

then I decide against it. I didn’t

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