Chapter Twenty-Six
“What are you talking about?” Caleb asks, trying to put his arms me. “What happened.”
I push his hands away. I pace back and forth alongside the car, breathing deeply until I’ve got the tears under control and can speak again. Get it out, I tell myself. Just get it all out.
“Last year, a few weeks before Christmas, exactly one year ago from today, m-my ex-boyfriend … committed suicide. That’s how our relationship ended. We had this up-and-down, super intense, multiple-breakups, one-and-a-half-year relationship, and then he killed himself.” My face scrunches up again as I fight against the tears. I take a gasp of air and continue. “And I tried s-so hard to save him. Over and over again, no matter how many times he broke my heart, I just kept on loving him. I thought so
