THE TRICKY THING ABOUT TRUST is that it is hard to get and even harder to recover after you’ve lost it.
People can react differently to being betrayed, lied to, or getting hurt by someone they love or care about. Some have the power to forgive and forget, others can forgive but not forget, and the latter is the most complicated one because as much as you think you’ve moved on and have managed to let go of all resentment in your heart, the head can still be stuck on the same place, not moving on along with the heart.
All the lies he told, their fights, and the tears shed when she was younger remain tattooed in her brain. She can still feel all the pain and exasperation of her old self as if it had happened the day before and not five years ago. Heath broke her heart multiple times, and wh
