Chapter 3
Ethan
I’m an asshole. I should turn around and say goodbye to Mia. But I can’t. It’s better if she doesn’t know the reason I have to leave and why I have to run away from the new life I’ve built in Pennsylvania.
She would hate me if she knew the truth. So, it’s better this way. Now, she can hate me for an entirely different reason. Mia will have new friends and forget all about me. I cringe at the thought of her having a boyfriend. I can’t have her, but that doesn’t make me want her any less.
It was the best excuse I could come up with when I broke the news to Will. He said he understood why I had to bail on our hockey plans and that family comes first, which only made me feel like a piece of shit for craving his little sister for the past year.
All it takes is one life-altering mistake to ruin everything. I didn’t expect one night to change my life. But it did. Now, it’s time to face the consequences.