Chapter Forty-Six: Anything But…

To anyone, those words paint my relationship grimly, but Blair only smiles and nods.

“Ah, yes, the controlling D’Amico traits.”

She says with a sigh.

How…anticlimactic.

I felt this the first time I met Matteo, but they really do have enough power to make their insanity feel sane.

"When I was with Christopher-"

"Before or after his marriage?”

She freezes at my question for a few seconds before a sad smile washes her face.

"What do you think?"

She returns the question to me.

"I think either is tragic, but there is tragic; ‘I let go after I saw he couldn't be mine’, and tragic, ‘I couldn't let go even if he decided not to be mine’."

"Have you told Matteo how you feel about him?"

"Whoa...let's not attack me, okay? I was just asking."

I defend, but she only chuckles before continuing.

"If I tell you wanting to be with Matteo is more hopeless than my situation, how would that make you feel?"

"Like stabbing you, for starters."

I answer truthfully, and she laughs.

"Just...what