Chapter 44

JESSIE I spent the entire night with Conor and this morning I avoided the kitchen and the living area because I didn’t want to bump into Shane. I can still hardly believe what he did last night. Conor has done his best to try to convince me that Shane testing me means that he’s finally ready to accept that I’m staying. And I suppose I can kind of understand his twisted logic - pushing a person away before you’re willing to let them in, to see how far they’re willing to go. But I can’t forget the things he said about him and his brothers passing me around until someone better comes along. It stung like hell. It still does. As the day goes on, I keep replaying his words over and over in my head, and each time I do, I find myself becoming angrier by the minute. How dare he speak to me like that. As though I’m some gold-digger who manipulated my way into their lives. As much as I wanted each of them, I never made a move. I didn’t cross that line first. Not with any of them. They pursued me