No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 303



"Not feeling well?" Dustin walked in, holding a bouquet, his face etched with concern.

Lying down at this moment seemed inappropriate. Grasping the bedrail, I attempted to sit up, but Dustin pressed gently against my shoulder. "Don't get up."

"I'm okay," I insisted, trying to sit up anyway.

Lying before Ernest was never awkward, making him quite different from other men to me.

Dustin's gaze fixed on my face. "What happened?"

How could I tell him the shock from my parents' situation had got to me?

It wasn't that I couldn't say it, but it was more that I didn't want to. For some reason, I'd been keeping my words to a minimum, avoiding wasting them on things I could easily brush off.

"Just a little faint from low blood sugar," I lied.

Dustin seemed skeptical, eyeing me closely before I quickly changed the subject, "What did you want to talk about?"

Dustin hesitated, then offered a placating falsehood, "Nothing much."

to say. Beating around the

better," Dustin

that was why I couldn't see him as more than

telling me makes me more anxious, which won't help

helpless. "Fine,

fall-out with my

I haven't,"

Conrad today, and he didn't

houses, which set Rad off. My dad hit him and talked of cutting him off, even threatening

first part. The rest was news

Haley out of the house, I felt it would end badly,

telling me all this?" I knew Dustin had a

conflicted as if it

"You want me to talk to your parents,

you into this, but my parents listen to you, and..." Dustin stopped,

me, right?" I

what I

Haley stay there instead. That's also

eyes held

at me, and I met his gaze without flinching. "But I've never brought this up with your parents. As to why they would know about it, I have

thing's for sure..."