The pain inside me snapped free. “You f*cking abandoned me for months! No texts, no calls, nothing!”
His jaw tightened. “Then couldn’t you come and seek me out?” he shot back, his voice loud now, echoing off the nearby buildings. His eyes burned with something close to anger.
For a moment, I just stared at him, unsure if I heard him right.
“Seek… you out?” I stuttered, my voice trembling between disbelief and laughter. “I did, Michael. I sought your friends out. You know what they did? They mocked me. They couldn’t even pretend to like me. I begged them to tell me where you were, but none of them cared. None.”
I wiped my face with the back of my hand, my breath shaking. “It wasn’t until Xander told me that you were out of the country. You left, Michael. You just left. So don’t stand he
