Chapter 25-2
Aiden cares about her, Marley knows that. She knows that she is his priority in threatening times. She knows that he is now one of her two best friends. Marley knows that he knew her name when he doesn't know any other girls'. But she also knows that when he learns about her past and about her triggers and the demons that will follow her for the rest of her life — he won't choose that burden.
It's one thing to hold her in the closet one time. It's one thing to help her move on from one panic attack.
It's one thing to be her friend. To help her. To support her.
She isn't the person he will end up with. If he even decides to end up with one person at all, it will be one of the dozens of beautiful, runway girls who are unbroken and confident and flirty. Who deserve him. If Aiden Matthews ends up with one person at all, it won't be Marley Hoover.