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Leaving Pace at the funeral was almost worse than sitting through the funeral itself. He was clearly beating himself up about the entire incident, and truthfully, they’d both been through hell because of what had happened.
But being around him wasn’t easy. This wasn’t the first time that he had lied to her. Freshman year, she had found out Pace was lying to her about Bryna. It had taken a while for them to get past that. Then, just as she had gotten over the s**t with Madison, more s**t had piled on top of her.
She knew she was justifying it in her head when she still loved him so much. But walking away was the right answer. She needed to get her life together, and she was just realizing that she hadn’t given herself a real shot by moving in with Pace.
All in all, it just meant that
