Page 109 of Alphas Like Us
“Two grand five minutes ago. Gone. The bank flagged the activity and froze all of myaccounts.”
As soon as I’m in arm’s reach, we draw together. Instinctively, our hands roam and hold and grip. He whispers, “I don’t have any cash onme.”
I trace the wings on his neck. “I planned to payanyway.”
He stares into me. “And I planned to ruin your plan.” His palm runs up back. Pushing me as close to his chest as possible with mysling.
I hug him tighter around the shoulders. His jaw skims against my jaw. His fingers massage the back of my head before clutchingharder.
I don’t let go ofhim.
I can feel his chest collapse. I holdstronger.
Breathdeepening.
We stay in this embrace for a long moment. Our pulses thumping together, and the world seems to go calm. Andquiet.
As we pull back, our eyes say the samething:
Let’s get out ofhere.
* * *
101k viewersand counting listen to me talk aboutboundarieson an Instagram Live. Coffee thrown at my face, Farrow being doxxed—this is not how I saw our date going. Instead of drowning in resentment, I remind myself to look on the bright side. I went on a public date with myboyfriend.
We’re here today. Breathing, living, and we have love—so much damn love.He’s okay.We’reokay.
Leaning against my bed’s headboard, I angle the phone, everything below my abdomen not in frame. I already struggled out of my shirt and attached my sling to my barechest.
Farrow helped. Kindof.
Kind of alot.
And then he had to take a phone call from the hospital.Paperwork shit,his words. So while he stepped out of the attic, I decided to go live and get this off mychest.
Boundaries.
Humandecency.
Don’t fuck with myboyfriend.
“I get that you all will have your opinions on Farrow. But shitting on him because you love me makesnodamn sense.” Emoji hearts flutter up the screen, and the tickertape of comments speeds rapidly. Making them hard toread.
But I catchthese:
sry. you could do better thanhim
Marrow 4life
I love you,Maximofffff!!
that sucks what happened withFarrow
OMG the burn on ur face, r uok??
he’s not good enough foru
we just don’t want you to gethurt!
