I wiped the tears from my eyes with the back of my sleeve and nodded.
“Yeah…I always cry at this kind of thing.”
I really hoped that Blake thought I was crying about the cartoon, because the fact I had just realized he was probably here to escape his violent and drunken brother was not something I wanted to reveal to him.
“Well,” he leaned closer to me and I felt my pulse race as I smelled his aftershave. When he spoke again it was in a husky whisper that sent a shiver through me. “I guess I know your darkest secret.”
I laughed, and Brooke and Pippa both turned to stare at me - Blake had believed me because this was that tragic part of the movie that my dad always used to call the ‘all is lost moment’.
The part where it seems like everything is absolutely hopeless and nothing can poss
