Melissa’s Reviews > Nine Month Contract > Status Update

This family gives and gives so easily, and I’m just the big, dumb idiot who doesn’t know how to take it.

Trista thinks about the Fletcher family
Not used to their affection
So different from her family

Trista- A peculiar feeling of jealousy slices through me. It was one thing to find out that Wyatt was in love with her and she broke his heart. It’s another to find out they almost had a baby together and he might have married her. It makes whatever the hell we have feel less significant somehow.
Robyn isn’t just the one who got away...
She’s the family he probably always wanted.

“Wyatt.” I close my eyes and feel the burn of hot tears threaten to slide down my face. I take a slow, deep breath before speaking because I know if I open my mouth too soon, I will cry. And I hate myself for that too. When I’ve regained control, I say the words that will hopefully end this conversation for good. “This is just a job for me.”

Trista wants to end things with Wyatt

Trista- This baby isn’t mine. It’s his. It’s always been his, and the reason I probably haven’t felt it kick yet isn’t because of the location of my stupid placenta. It’s because I don’t deserve that experience the same way my parents never deserved to have children of their own. I am not worthy of this baby.

I laugh as I recall him in my bed the other morning, telling me I could stay in the barn another year or two if I wanted.
Stay in the barn.
Like an animal.
Like a concubine.
Like a whore.

Wyatt- Tell me to tell Calder to fuck off. Tell me that it would make you fucking crazy to think about me seeing another woman’s body because it makes me want to violently hurt someone when I think about you just having coffee with Avery.
Trista- That’s insane!
Wyatt- That’s me. Am I going to hurt him? No. Am I going to stop you from going? No. But are the feelings I have for you real? Fuck yes, they are.

There’s something horrifyingly painful about weakening a strong man. Especially one who has only ever been good to me.
My eyes soften on him. “No, Wyatt. You’re perfect. You’re the perfect man.” Just not perfect for me.

Trista distancing herself from Wyatt
Doesn’t want to fall for him

Calder- “This night pushes our boundaries and our comfort zones so we can walk out of it with a new experience, feeling changed...together.”
Luke turns back to look at me. “He’s right, Wyatt. We agreed years ago never to argue with whatever the choice was. It’s why we all take turns picking every year.”

Figuring out what to do for their annual Dark Night

She closes the door to the bathroom, and I’m left with an odd, familiar feeling that I haven’t felt in ten years. Like something—someone—important is slipping through my fingers. Something too valuable to lose.
And this time, it feels far more terrifying.

Wyatt is afraid of losing Trista
History with Robyn resurfacing

Wyatt invites Trista to stay on his mountain after their contract is over.