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Prologue

HARDIN

I can’t feel the icy concrete underover has Zed pulls out of the parking lot with Tessa in the passenger seat

I couldn’t have i dreaht that I’d feel this type of pain The sting of loss, I’ve heard it called I haven’t had anything or anyone to cherish, never felt the need to have someone, to make them completely mine, I haven’t wanted to hold on to so panic of losing her—wasn’t planned None of this was It was supposed to be easy: sleep with her, get hts over Zed Pretty cut-and-dried Only it didn’t happen that way Instead, the blond-haired girl in the long skirts who obsessivelyto-do lists crept her way inside of me until, slowly, I fell for her so hard that I couldn’t believe it I didn’t realize just howinto a sink after showing inity

I hated it, hated every moment of itbut I didn’t stop

I won the bet, but I lost the only thing that has ever oodness she made me see in myself As the snow soaks intohis addiction on toand helping create such a fucked-up child; I want to bla to me Hell, I want to blame everyone

But I can’t I did this I ruined her and everything we had

But I’ll do whatever it takes to make up for my mistakes

Where is she going now? Is it someplace where I’ll ever find her?

Chapter one

TESSA

It took longer than ahow the bet came to be et some relief

“I know He kept co for et It eird We all just thought he was obsessed inning—like to prove a point or so for a second, and his eyes scan my face “It was all he talked about Then, that day when I invited you to the movies, he flipped out After he dropped you back off, he totally flipped shit on hed it off, because I thought he was drunk”

“Did hedid he tell you about the stream? And theother stuff?” I hold my breath as I ask The pity in his eyes answers me “Oh my God” I put my hands over my face

“He told us everythingI” he says in a low voice

I stay quiet and turn offsince I left the bar He has no right to be calling me

“Where’s your new dorm?” Zed asks, and I notice we’re near campus