Chapter Fifteen
Tanner
“Griffin, are you okay?”
His face had lost all of its color. With a trembling hand he picked up his drink and downed it at once, then grimaced. Griffin looked into my eyes, which were blinking rapidly, and all I wanted to do was take him in my arms and tell him everything was going to be okay.
“We don’t have to talk about it. Like, forget I brought it up. I don’t need to…”
“No, I want to tell you what happened. You deserve to know, because,” Griffin took a deep breath, then shocked the hell out of me. “I used to blame you for it, for what happened to me.”
“Griff, I don’t know what to say. Like, if this is too much for you, just…”
“No.” Griffin’s voice rose. “What they did to me was… can we go back to the apartment? I don’t want to do this in front of so many p
