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."

more firmly, "Spit it out if you've got something to say. Beating around the bush is only going to make

wait until you're feeling better," Dustin

couldn't see him as

knew how to push his buttons, feigning urgency. "Not telling

helpless. "Fine, I'll

"Rad had a fall-out with my parents.

haven't," I

saw Conrad today, and he

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

aware of the first part. The rest

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

this?"

as if it was

a knowing smile. "You want me to talk to

drag you into this, but my parents listen to you,

of me, right?" I finished for

that's not what I

house was supposed to be Conrad's gift to me, but he let Haley stay there instead. That's also

held

he looked 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

thing's for sure..."