wanted to make sure you were okay.”
Justin took a step forward, and his face became illuminated in the glow of the dim light from the kitchen doorway.
I gasped. His cut was broken open almost completely, with only the edges of it held together, like a broken zipper.
There were angry purple bruises under both of his eyes. His lip was puffy, and there was dried blood under his nose.
“Justin,” I gasped.
“I’m fine,” he said. “Just a few bumps and…” Suddenly, he staggered backwards and fell to his hands and knees. Blood was dripping from somewhere on his face and pooling on the floor beneath him.
I ran to him and tried to help him to his feet. He looked up at me. “Don’t leave me,” he said. “Lindsay, don’t leave me. I need you.”
I knelt beside him, trying to figure out what to do, and my thoughts kept tumbling around my head.
I need you, he’d said. But the thing that terrified me the most was that in that moment, I’d realized I needed him too.
END OF BOOK 4
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