Seventy-Three: RowynI stood on the school steps and watched things play out between Reed and Cole. As far as brothers went, Cole was kind of awesome; he always had been. I mean, I loved Tristen, but little brothers were just a whole different story. Cole never really treated us like we were annoyances growing up. I knew when he said he'd get there that he would, and I was glad he proved me right. When Reed got into his brother's car, I finally breathed for the first time in an hour.
A cold feeling crept in at that point though, once I knew he was safe. I wasn't the one who was able to get through to him. He'd shut me out completely, and that was the reality of where we were. I wasn't his anything. And I didn't think that's how I wanted it to be. I'd made a choice in lying to him about Hun
