Quinn actually knew that he had woken Lindsay up, but she kept her voice down whenever she spoke anyway.
On the other hand, Ryan never did—even if he knew that his mother was sleeping, he did not care as he vented his feelings.
Quinn shrugged and gave up just then.
She did not want to press the issue of Ryan changing as a person… or that she never noticed that side of him that many others did not know of.
Right now, she just wanted to live her life and be with Sam.
"I'm going now. Sam's hurt too—I need to check on him," she said and turned to leave without another word.
Ryan growled coldly in her wake, "I don't care if you're trying to be petty and said those things to upset me, but this is your final warning: if you step out of that door, we're never getting back together. I refuse to cater to the whims of hand-me-downs."
Quinn pursed her lips—so she was a hand-me-down in his mind already.
No one would have stayed unscathed by such a humiliating term, but it really was no skin off her back.
Perhaps now that he was not important to her, nothing he said mattered.
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