"No, I'm not." Carissa clutched the tissue in her hand. "But I did tell him I'd be here for him, that I'd help him get better."

Garrett groaned. "Why would you do that?"

"Because Danny changed me. I've become this person I don't recognize, and I refuse to let him keep changing me." She wadded up the tissue and chucked it into the trash. "I don't like who I am anymore, and part of me fixing myself is learning to get back to who I really am. And I am the type of ...