Chapter 10
Derek
For the rest of the night, I went out on my boat and slept until the sun came up. When Hayden said she needed to get home, my first thought was that I didn’t want to take her back. Then again, it gave me the excuse I needed to get out of Evan’s invitation. How could Hayden see through me the way she did? Though I’d spent months pretending to be fine, she’d known something was wrong. Something inside me told me to run away from her as fast as I could, but there was another part of me that told me to stay.
Being around her helped me to forget. Her smile and the way we talked together pushed every bad thought to the back of my mind. It was as if I gravitated toward her without even realizing it. However, getting close to her was probably going to be the worst mistake I cou
