Chapter 209 Giving Her The Truth

• Callum POV
• It’s been a week since I got home. A week confined to this apartment, not stepping foot outside. A week of Lilly trying to fix me. I’m not an idiot—I know what she’s doing. She’s using sex, pleasure, and intimacy to relax me, to make speaking easier. And it works, it really does, but it also feels... wrong somehow.
• Not that I’m complaining. I can talk now—not as smoothly as before, not as fast, but enough. I don’t need the damn phone to communicate anymore. Lilly’s been incredible, staying by my side after all the shit I put her through. After everything I’ve done, I don’t deserve her patience or her love.