It's not that i don't want you. I lied, earlier, when i said i was protecting you. I'm protecting myself. I don't want to be your rebound, Jacqueline." "Then why are you assuming that role? It's not what i want, either." "What am i gonna do with you?" "I can think of a couple things.

Landon Loucas Maxfield was asleep on his sofa. With me.

sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.

Wow, that sounds total stalker." Or totally hot. God.

It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.