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Because Dad was wrong. No matter how he phrased it, I wasn’t good for anyone—especially her.

The best I could do for both herandme was to leave her the fuck alone.

Fuck.

8

GEMMA

My phone rangon the coffee table, and I swiped down to reject the call.

Blue looked over at me from where he was sitting on the couch.

“Are you and your mom not talking again?”

“Something like that,” I muttered, trying to not make eye contact.

“Is she the reason you were so terrified when you called me?”

I looked down at my lap, not answering him.

“Gemma?”

I nodded. “I don’t want to talk to her. I don’t want to talk about her. If I could, I’d much rather forget about her.”

Blue didn’t say anything, and I braced myself for a fight, but he surprised me when he nodded. “All right. How are you doing?”

“I’m fine.”

He had been asking me that since the day after the bar.

I still hadn’t been able to get Kai out of my head. I knew it was getting bad when I had a wet dream about him last night and woke up in the middle of an orgasm.

I hoped I hadn’t made any noise, considering Blue and I shared a wall.

That would be embarrassing. I was blushing just thinking about it.

“Gemma? Are you listening to me?”

“Huh?”

He rolled his eyes. “I’ll take that as a no.”

I winced. “Sorry. I was daydreaming. What were you saying?”

He opened his mouth, about to say something, when his phone rang.

I waited while he answered the call. I could faintly hear the other person on the line, but I heard the words “house party,” before Blue looked over at me.

“I don’t know, man. Tonight might not be a good time.”

I frowned and tapped him on the shoulder. If he were saying no to hanging out with his friend because he felt he needed to stay in andbabysitme, I would be pissed.

I did not need him to watch over me. I was not fragile, and this was not the first time I’d been rejected, which I was sure was it.

Blue had gone to talk to Kai like I asked him to, and I was sure Kai didn’t want anything to do with me, which was why Blue still hadn’t told me how their talk went, even when I pushed him.

I would get over my obsession with Kai.

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