Chapter 126\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan POV\u00a0<\/p>\n
31\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen make me understand, Tristan. She\u2019d watched me pace like a mother watching a child have a tantrum. \u201cWe\u2019re all family here. I\u2019m your cousin, ves. but I\u2019m also your sister in every way that matters. Even though we\u2019re not blood siblings, and we didn\u2019t grow up together. That has to count for something.\u00a0<\/p>\n
right?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d wanted to tell her that she was my sister, that I didn\u2019t care about the technicalities of our relationship. I saw her as family the same way I should see\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athena.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Don\u2019t start with that look, she\u2019d scolded before I could speak.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat look?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat look where you\u2019re comparing me to Athena. I am not Athena, and Athena is not me. I know you literally grew up tog\u00a0<\/p>\n
sister.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
YOUR\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s my younger sister, I\u2019d growled, the words coming out harsher than I\u2019d intended. \u201cShe\u2019s supposed to be my younger sister.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, fine, She\u2019s your younger sister, and so am I.\u201d Sarah had leaned forward fixing me with that penetrating stare that made me feel like she could see straight through to my soul. \u201cLet me ask you something. How many times have you ever thought about pushing me to the wall and kissing me?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The suggestion had been so revolting that I\u2019d actually made a face. Never. Not once in my entire life had that thought ever crossed my mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGood,\u201d Sarah had nodded, clearly reading my disgusted expression as the answer she\u2019d expected. \u201cNow let me ask you this: How many times have you thought about pinning Athena against a wall and making love to her?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t answer. The number was too high to count, too shameful to admit out loud.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A knowing smile had spread across her face, but she hadnt been done with her interrogation. \u201cHow many times have you felt jealous seeing Athena with another man? Has the thought of her loving someone else, spending her life with someone who isn\u2019t you, made you want to commit murder?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just thinking about it had made my hands clench into fists. The idea of Athena in another man\u2019s arms, looking at someone else the way she used to look at me, loving someone else\u2026 it made me want to tear the world apart\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou love me, Tristan. But not the same way you love Athena.\u201d Sarah\u2019s voice had been gentle now, like she was explaining something obvious to a\u00a0<\/p>\n
confused child.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou, my stubborn brother, are madly and completely in love with Athena Slade, and theres nothing you can do about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d stared at her, my mind reeling. Love? Was that what this crushing weight in my chest was? This desperate need to see her, to touch her, to know she was safe and happy?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you can\u2019t run away from it, no matter how hard you try,\u201d Sarah had continued. \u201cYou\u2019ve been in love with her for years, and you\u2019ll never stop, No matter what you tell yourself, no matter how guilty you feel about less, you will never stop loving Athena.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not possible,\u201d I\u2019d whispered, but even as I said it, I knew it wasn\u2019t true.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah had looked at me like she wanted to slap some sense into me. It is possible, and you know what else? You\u2019re going to lose her. You\u2019re going t hose that amazing girl who loves you back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
My head had snapped up. \u201cWhat?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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2034 Thu Jan B\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 126\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yes, the lives you. But you know what\u2019s going to happen if you keep being should have triggered every protective instind i had\u00a0<\/p>\n
idareh had walked close, invading my persund space in way that\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bat I\u2019d just stood there, frozen by her words. You\u2019re going to watch someone else treat her the way you couldnst. You think you\u2019re in pain now? Man until you watch her kiss someone else. Then you I know what real pain feels like\u00a0<\/p>\n
The image she\u2019d painted had been like a knife to the heart. Athena in another man\u2019s arms, smiling at someone else, building a life with someone who\u00a0<\/p>\n
wasn t me..\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI already lost her, I\u2019d said, my voice barely above a whisper,\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah had looked confused. \u201cWhat?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI said I already lost her. The admission had felt like bleeding out on the floor,\u00a0<\/p>\n
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