Chapter 25

"Because I was an idiot," he replied. "When we found out and you ran away I wanted to prove that I was the one in control. So like an idiot I rejected you. I thought I would wait a couple days and take it back. But when I told my father..." An agonized look found its way onto his face and he suddenly seemed very, very old. Much older than he really was. Much older than a normal twenty-five year old man. "I never thought he would do something like that, Deanne. And I'm sorry. Is there any chance, any at all that you could forgive me?" A part of me wanted to forgive him. For a moment I felt like a teenager again and I was imagining how things could have been. How they could still be. All I had to do was say yes. But when I opened my mouth the word wouldn't come out. I wasn't a teenager and I wasn't the girl he knew, the one he thinks I am. So instead I said, "It's Beta Greyson." He stepped back as if I'd hit him again and the pain on his face was more than I cou