72| Unwanted.

"Lucy, calm down." Reese tried to calm her friend down, but Lucy wasn’t having it. Reese’s mom just threatened to take her means of livelihood away from her, and that wasn’t even the worst thing. She also threatened to make her parents back in New York bear the brunt of her anger if she fails to convince Reese to go back to New York.

With all that? There was no way she was going to calm down. She was enraged and felt helpless because there was nothing she could do.

"Reese, I am sorry, but I don’t want you to come back here." Lucy spat. "I think it’s best if you just stay there with Axel from now on. At least she won’t be able to threaten him."

"Lucy…" Reese called softly, tears brimming in her eyes, hurt as hell that her best friend was forsaking her. "Can I come over so we could just talk about it in person?"

"Reese, didn’t you listen to all that I said?" Lucy snapped. "I don’t want to have anything to do with you. At least not now."

Her words, every sentence, drilled an unending ho