Chapter 13Toby
Kai didn’t sleep with Franklin, and more importantly, he still loves me. Years after his last confession, he still loves me…
It seems too good to be true, so I struggle to believe it, and I hadn’t dared hope for it. Even after everything, it doesn’t feel real. The first time he said he loved me, I was too broken to understand it—let alone have any capacity to love him back. I hated myself and the world along with it. To this day, I’m still broken, and I don’t know why he would want me, but he said what he said, and Kai isn’t someone who takes such things lightly.
Memories of his first confession edge their way into my brain. Kai, sitting by my hospital bed, holding my hand while telling me he loves me. The painful truth is that I didn’t even want him to be there. I felt h
