#Chapter 71: The Weight of Secrets

In the days that followed my meeting with Aaron, I was feeling so all over the place. How could Aaron make that ask of me. He wanted me to keep this secret relationship that Aaron and could enter into. He wanted to me to try to convince Liam to join the family. It all felt like such a betrayal because of course if I told Liam Aaron’s proposal, he would say absolutely not. Liam knowing that Aaron was using me to try to get Liam to come into the Winslow family fold would only make Liam more adamant about giving a big FU to Aaron and the Winslows. Each day passed in a blur of classes, assignments, and trying to avoid Liam. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see him—my heart ached every time I ignored his texts or dodged his calls—but I needed time to think, to figure out how to navigate this new reality Aaron had thrust upon us. There were so many times that Liam almost caught up with me and I just didn’t know what to do. During our English class, instead of sitting in our normal corne