Not yours to reject
Then she gets up to leave, and I hear her talking to someone around the side of the clinic before she's fully out of sight, voice carrying further than she probably realizes.
"You don't understand what he's going through," Mara is saying, gentle in a way that makes my stomach drop before I even process the words. "He made a mistake, but people act like Dean's some kind of monster now. He's not. He's just scared of something, and nobody's even asking him what."
I go very still on the clinic steps, straining to hear the rest.
"He didn't mean it the way it sounded," Mara continues. "I know Delaney's hurt, and she has every right to be, but Dean isn't a bad person. Something's actually wrong wit