“Let me explain—”
He slammed his open palm against the roof of the car and the sound, amplified by the silence around us, was like a shotgun going off. “Explain what? You said you loved him! You said you wanted him back!”
“I did. Yes. I did say both of those statements. And I meant them.” I took a breath and looked directly at him. “Things changed.”
“Things changed?” Jeff’s voice cracked. “Just like that? One minute you love him, and the next minute you don’t?”
That’s when it dawned on me. This wasn’t about Rory and me. It never had been. This was about Jeff and Aaron. About Aaron not loving Jeff and the lie their life had become without Jeff even realizing it. This was Jeff trying to prove to himself that love was real, somewhere, for someone—that it could last forever if everybody tr
