Damien Cross POV“Are you still awake?” Adrian said.“Yeah,” I said quietly. “Can’t sleep.”He turned on his side, facing me. “You’ve been tossing for hours.”“So have you,” I said. “Don’t act innocent.”He smiled. “You noticed?”“I notice everything about you,” I said. “Even when you try to hide.”He sighed. “That’s exactly the problem. You always notice, but you never talk.”I frowned. “What’s that supposed to mean?”“It means,” he said slowly, “you hold everything inside until it explodes.”I stared at him. “I don’t explode.”“Damien, last week you yelled at the microwave,” he said, half laughing, half serious.I rolled my eyes. “It wasn’t heating properly.”“It was unplugged,” he reminded me.That made me laugh. “Okay, fine. Maybe I do hold things in.”He looked down at the blanket. “I just wish you’d talk to me instead.”“I’m talking now,” I said.He gave me that small, tired smile that always broke me. “Only because I pushed.”I leaned forward, my voice calm. “You shouldn’t have
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