29 Trihn stared blankly up at her ceiling. She had been lying in bed all night, trying to figure out where everything had gone so horribly wrong. At some point, she must have drifted off from exhaustion, but when she awoke again, she continued staring and mostly stressing. Damon was the best thing that had ever happened to her. That much, she was pretty certain of. He loved her for the person that she was, not the one who had crawled into a hole and buried her head after having her heart bruised and broken. He was there for her when she needed someone. He had fought for her from day one. And she had run him off, too. He’d said they weren’t broken up, yet she felt numb, as if they had. She had gotten so worked up about Chloe, and their argument had escalated so quickly that she hadn’t

