Chapter one
Bethany
I make my way up to Gore Mountain as soon as the roads are clear, thinking only of getting out of Boston. It’s a chilly five-hour drive to the Adirondacks, but I don’t care. That’s five hours between me and my battered apartment with its boarded-over window and punch marks in one wall—and between me and Michael, who did the damage.
I knew we wouldn’t last when he started flirting with my classmates, but I never expected him to melt down completely like this when I dumped him. And after I caught him cheating in our own bed!
The fading bruise under my eye still stings after three days. Michael committed two deal-breakers in the span of two hours that night. One of them got him a night in jail, and an emergency protection order against him.
He knows we’re quits. But h
