Paloma Perez.
He is insufferable. I swear he is. I told him not to listen to anything Caden says. I told him. So, why didn’t he listen? What could Caden have possibly said that got under Elijah’s skin like that?
Talked about my body? The moment I get home, I throw myself into bed and bury my face in my pillow. I don’t want to cry. I don’t want to think but my brain won’t shut up. It keeps playing with dangerous possibilities.
Caden has said so many things before. He used to say he loved “living in my hips.” Or the fact that he had a favourite position. Which one did he describe to Elijah?! What if… what if he told Elijah those exact things?
I feel both mortified and just—angry. Elijah is the man I actually want and now, I think he’s looking at me like a wound he can’t stitch close. It
