Chapter 48

Stella calmly keeps her eyes on him before shaking her head and running a hand threw her hair. "Look, Liam, I know you're hurt and feeling betrayed about-" Once again, Liam cuts her off. "You don't know how I feel so don't act like you do." Stella presses her lips together tightly and looks away, her hair falling onto her face and concealing her expression away from my gaze. She walks off without another word and back to her room, shutting the door with a loud thud, like the angry teenager she is. Slowly, I shake my head and rest my eyes on Liam to find him staring at me. An emotion I can't read passes his eyes and before I get the chance to decipher it, it's gone.  "You're unbelievable." I state.  "I know." "You could have told me, about you know, this." I gesture to the house, to the people down stairs, to the evident truth he's been keeping from me.  "I didn't know how to tell you."