Never Let Me Go Read Online Free

wasn’t. I hated him for fooling me not once, not twice, but time and time again into falling in love with him. I hated him for leaving me the way he did, twice as broken and twice as fragile as before.
    Even more than that, I hated that I fell for him every single time, and I hated that even though I knew it was inevitable, I never saw it coming when he hurt me.
    I wanted more from him than he would ever be able to give me, and that was the problem.
    I damn sure wasn’t going to put up with it anymore.
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Two
    After swimming for a couple hours, Nic and I took to the small general store in search of ingredients for dinner. Callum’s family was over, Colin got home over an hour ago, and Colin’s best friend Jamie Victor was coming over with his girlfriend—us girls wanted to make an impression, so naturally we’d decided to do what we did best.
    We’d bought ingredients to make salmon and chicken with lemon white rice and asparagus. Nic was going to make her favorite: cookie dough brownies, and Cal’s wife Amanda was going to bring us her favorite white wine.
    Amanda was sweet, and her sons, Caleb, Rhys, and Julian were absolutely adorable.
    Amanda, Nickayla, and I were in the kitchen cooking with Jamie’s girlfriend, Addison, while the guys took to the arcade downstairs with the kids.
    I had to admit, it was unnerving to be around all those women, so happy in their relationships while I was the only single one—the only miserable one.
    Amanda couldn’t stop gushing about the fact that she and Cal were going to try for another baby—a girl this time—and Addison was going on and on about she and Jamie going to New York after graduation. Nic was being Nic, overly enthusiastic about the fact that within a few years—God-willing—she’d be married and living in this beautiful house with Colin.
    And me…well, I played the supportive friend, reacting to their happy news and pretending that it didn’t make me feel like an absolute piece of shit because if Brody hadn’t dumped me, I’d probably be just as happy as they were.
    I continued to cook, seasoning the salmon as best as I knew how before putting it in the oven. Amanda popped the cork off the bottle of wine, pulling fluted glasses out of the cabinet.
    “Michele, would you like some wine?” she asked, holding a flute out to me.
    I nodded, accepting it even though I was only eighteen. “Yes, please,” I said. “I totally need to unwind.”
    I sipped the wine delicately, hopping up on the kitchen counter and crossing my legs. Everyone else was given a glass of wine, but Nic, always the innocent one, dumped hers into the skillet that she was browning the chicken in. I rolled my eyes at her and she shrugged when she caught me doing so.
    “What?” she said, innocently. “I promised my mom I wouldn’t do anything bad while I was out here.”
    “Yeah, because half a glass of white wine is going to get you arrested,” I scoffed. I downed the rest of my glass, and Amanda wordlessly refilled it for me. I raised it up to her in a toasted thanks, taking another sip. “I didn’t have to promise Cecilia anything, because she gives me much stronger alcohol than this when she’s going through shit.”
    Addison laughed, working on the rice while Amanda steamed the asparagus.
    Amanda was a tall, leggy brunette with grey-blue eyes, and Addison was a voluptuous blonde of average height—either way, they made Nic and I look like we were little people.
    Addison was about to get started on a salad, but she flipped her head down and twisted her hair into a bun. When she stood up, she went to work pulling apart romaine lettuce.
    “So, Michele, what are your plans for after high school?” Addy asked curiously.
    I looked to Nic, totally panicked, because I hadn’t counted on them asking me what I was doing, especially since I was the only one without a boyfriend. Honestly, I hadn’t factored being single into my