Status Updates From Unraveled Book 9.5 (Keeper ...

How?
How did he get this incredible girl to look at him like that?
He didn’t deserve her.
He’d never deserve her.
But that didn’t mean he wouldn’t try—with every breath and every second of every day that she was willing to be with him.

“I’m trying to figure out how to go back to only seeing you as a friend, and it’s not easy, because I’d just started realizing how much I care about you.”
Somewhere along the way she’d squeezed her eyes shut.
Keefe, meanwhile, had completely stopped breathing.

Meanwhile his brain started screaming, AHHHHHH—WE’RE HOLDING HANDS!
And they were.
Foster wasn’t pulling away.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???

when her toe clipped the edge of a root and she crashed into his back and clung on like a drop bear.
“Sorry,” she said—and it took him a second to realize…
She wasn’t letting go.

“Do you want to go for a walk?” she asked.
His heart went thud again, since he was pretty sure “go for a walk” was code for Hey, let’s go somewhere quiet so no one will see you crying.
But… at least then he’d finally have an answer.