Jacob
I hadn’t planned on laying eyes on the bastard… ever again.
I thought our paths would never cross again in this lifetime, but who was I kidding? I’d agreed to move back to New York with Nathan. To prove to him that my past had no power over me anymore.
I just wanted him to trust that I was strong enough to come back to the one place I’d dreaded for years.
And somehow I believed in that too. That I’d grown past my trauma.
But how wrong I was.
I didn’t go snooping around. Didn’t peek at his social media profiles. Didn’t bother asking after him. I didn’t even dare drive by the joints people had said he used to frequent. I’d stayed away.
I’d told myself to forget him… or at least pretend to.
I’d asked Nathan to get a place far away from his neighborhood, and I’d done the s
