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."

out if you've got something to say. Beating around the

until you're feeling better,"

I couldn't see him as more than a brotherly figure despite

his buttons, feigning urgency. "Not telling me makes me more anxious, which won't help my

somewhat helpless. "Fine,

a fall-out with my parents. You

I haven't," I admitted

saw Conrad today, and he didn't

kicked Haley out of one of Rad's houses, which set Rad off. My dad hit him and talked of cutting

first part.

mentioned kicking Haley out of the house, I felt it would end

trying to say by telling me all this?" I knew

as if

knowing smile. "You want me to talk

it's not fair to drag you into this, but my parents listen to you,

me,

not what I meant," Dustin tried to

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,

thing's for sure..."