Chapter 179 Rebounds

• They stood there in the kitchen of their new apartment, and they stared at each other. The ground had shifted beneath them, had shaken and frightened them. But they still seemed to be together.
• “Okay,” Aiden whispered. “I won’t fuck up the rebounds.”
• Cade’s face almost crumbled then, but he stared at the door of the fridge until he had himself under control. Then he said, “I thought you’d be gone. For sure. I thought… you still might, though. Right? If I don’t say the right stuff about before? You still might leave. But I don’t know what the right stuff is, Aiden. I don’t know what you want me to say. I can’t go back in time and change it. And even if I could, it wasn’t like there was another choice. Not one that…. Yeah, I could have stayed and kept working at my regular job. But then I never would have saved the money to go to school. I’d still be back there, grinding away, and I’d never have come here and I