“That was what Jake had said to me. Except, after I’d made it clear that I was going to stick with my decision, Carly had made it equally clear she didn’t want me for a friend, and I was relegated to nothing more than a bodyguard, one she spoke to only when she had to, which wasn’t often. It hurt, but I didn’t let it show. All of us were in enough pain as it was. Jake had died three months – to the day – after he’d fallen. Pneumonia had settled in and after a couple weeks of fighting to breathe,... he was just gone. He’d held on an extra day until he’d had a chance to tell Carly goodbye. She’d been gone on a short trip to a kid’s hospital in San Francisco, trying to keep busy, but when she’d heard he wasn’t doing well, she’d cut it short. He’d smiled the moment she’d walked into his room. She’d sat with him for hours that night, and the next morning, I found him still. He’d had a smile on his face then too. At that moment, I finally understood some fraction of the agony I’d put Dale through when I’d killed his brother.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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