Chapter 273

"Just try and not fight with her.... my eardrums are not to blame for you two and your spats." I point out with a raised brow, and Carmen sighs in mutual defeat. "I hate how much he loves you... how you are together, and I'm not sorry about that. It hurts to see it... but I won't do anything to jeopardize my place in the homestead. It's not easy to get over someone like him, but I know it's pointless to even look at him twice. I can see where his heart and his focus lie. I'm not a threat, not that I ever could be... I'm just saying." She shrugs, turning her full attention back to driving, and the simmering atmosphere seems to dull down and dissipate so quickly that it's unnerving. She's honest anyway, even if the deliverance is harsh, and I don't like some of the content, but I respect the fact she's being truthful about what she feels, and I stretch out and sigh heavily. "I'm sorry that you got hurt. That he had someone before me that had to let him go. I can't imagine what that must