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my bad side.”
    Katherine’s face with bright right with anger as she gritted teeth. But she remained silent. Finally she stormed to the front door with a puff. When she got to the frame of the door, she stopped. “He’s just my leftovers. He’s nothing special. If you really want my sloppy seconds so much, then he’s all yours. But Blair,” she paused and turned to me with a wide smile on her face, “be sure to think of me when you’re sucking his cock tonight.”
    “Get the fuck out of my house, Katherine.” Dean shoved Katherine to the hallway and slammed the door on her.
    After Katherine was gone, Dean and I smiled at each other, and I felt my heart ache at the sight of him. He reached his hands and caressed my cheeks, pulling me up to kiss him.
    But before our lips met, I moved away. “I can’t, Dean.”
     

CHAPTER NINE
    Dean
     
    Her words sent a shock wave through my system and I wondered if I’d heard them correctly. “What do you mean? I thought…”
    She shook her head. “So much has happened recently, Dean. I wonder if…”
    Tears streamed down her cheeks, and I felt my chest tighten in fear for what she'd say next.
    I grabbed her arms. “I’m sorry for everything that’s happened, baby. But we can make this work.”
    She slowly pushed me away and met my gaze with somber eyes. “As much as I don’t want to admit it, Katherine’s right about one thing.”
    “What?” I was completely shocked by her words.
    “There are some facts that we will never be able to change. The fact that she’s my sister. The fact that you’ve slept with her. The fact that you’d loved her so deeply, that when she broke up with you, you refused to be in a relationship for over ten years.”
    “That’s all in the past, Blair.” I needed her to know that I don’t love Katherine anymore. “What I felt for her doesn’t stand a chance to how I feel about you.”
    “Tell me this, Dean. If she wasn’t a bitch to me, and we had became close sisters, would you have been okay with that? Would you have been able to appreciate her as my sister?”
    “I…” I was taken aback by her questions. It wasn’t something I’d thought about.
    “Would you have forgiven her for all the things she’d done to you?”
    I knew she wanted the truth, and I was tired of lying to her. I looked away. “I don’t know.”
    “You’ve been holding on to so much anger and resentment against her for over ten years. I don’t think that just goes away over night.”
    “But that doesn’t change how I feel about you,” he insisted.
    “But it changes how I feel about us.” I watched her fight back her tears as she tried to hold it together. “I’m still trying to accept and move on from the fact that she’s your ex.”
    I wasn’t sure what to say. She was right. I couldn’t change any of these facts.
    “Dean, since the first moment we met, it’d seemed like life has been trying to pull us apart. Maybe we don’t work.”
    “Don’t say that,” I begged.
    “You know, when I was younger and got my heart broken by a guy, my Dad had said something to me that has stayed with me. He said, ‘You can’t force love. You can’t control the future. But you deserve the best in life. So if the time is not right, then move on. Second best is never enough. You’d do much better on your own.’” I turned to meet Dean’s gaze. “Those words stuck with me all these years, and it holds true more so than ever. People always say that timing is everything when it comes to relationships. And it’s been pretty clear from the very moment we met that timing has never been right for us. Something or someone was always just around the corner to break us apart. So...maybe it’s time for us to move on...from each other.”
    “No, Blair. I think we should talk about this.”
    She tried to force a smile but more tears fell down her flushed cheeks. “What else is there to say, Dean? I want all of you, Dean. But I don’t think you can give