Chapter 52

“Is that all?” I asked, pushing for more.

“Yeah, that’s all.”

Chapter 52

I raised an eyebrow, “You don’t like him at all?”

“A little, I guess.”

After Christine replied, she suddenly let out a sarcastic laugh, “But what’s the use of liking someone? My mom used to say she married my dad because they were madly in love.”

“But that didn’t stop them from throwing dishes at each other when they fought. Is there anything like true and lasting love in the world?

I knew, deep down, she didn’t believe in love, not even familial love.

After her father’s business went belly up, he turned to drinking, gambling, and started to lash out, hitting both his wife and Christine.

Her mom just disappeared one day, leaving her to grow up with that excuse of a father, taking beatings more times than she could count.

I wanted to lighten the mood, so I changed the subject with a grin, “But why have your so good to me all these years?”

been

rooftop in the dead of winter,

up made me touch my nose

and panicked, rushing over to pull her back from what I thought was the edge.

trying to kill her

to clear her head, not jump off, but I almost gave her a

us from mere roommates into inseparable best friends.

laugh and casually threw a bag into my lap, “Have breakfast. Got you

really do love me

“I clearly

bother me, which was a rare

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when I could just focus on my

when I left work that

car, painted

passing colleagues even commented on how close you have to be to someone to

fishbone stuck in my

hard time, then showed up at my

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