Chapter 26

The heavy raspy breaths on the other end of the phone were still blending together.

Jozeler’s hands were shaking, and sleep was the last thing on her mind.

was a hot mess, feeling like she wanted to scream her lungs out.

Finally, she hit the record button, holding it down until the caller hung up

She sat up in bed head hanging, her chest tight and short of breath for a long time.

No chance of getting any more sleep.

She watched the clock tick away, feeling like the night was dragging on forever.

When dawn finally broke, there was a knock on the door, her head buzzing, completely drained, and her phone went off

again.

“Melvin flashed on the screen. Her eyes were sore as she stared at the name, while the annoying knock on the door

persisted

After a while, she dragged herself to answer it, barefoot.

Melvin looked awful. “Changed the locks?”

Jocelyn lifted her head, and the look on her face shocked Melvin.

Eyes bloodshot, her face completely pale, she looked like she’d been through hell and back in just one night.

“What happened to you? Melvin frowned, reaching for her shoulder.

Before he could touch her Jocelyn dodged like she was avoiding something filthy, the disgust in her eyes plain as day.

Melvin’s face went cold in an instant Jocelyn, what the hell is going on?”

Jocelyn took a painful deep breath, still clutching her phone, and looked him straight in the eye. “Let’s break up.”

Melvin’s eyes narrowed, and the air around him turned frosty.

yourself!” His gaze turned

the recording on her phone, that unbearable, indescribable sound filling

Jocelyn’s heart

Melvin

and showed him the call log, “3:25 AM, you called

then pulled out his own, finding no trace of

and Zephyr took me home. I didn’t wake

didn’t want to leave it murky. If he was willing to explain,

slightly and

a loss for

building up inside him at her mocking

She let her arms fall, propping herself against the door, the light went from her eyes

back there. Don’t come here anymore.”

she was about

and said, I told

Chap 26

either. If you’re just looking

was about to explode

determined not to let hirn

you believe me?

sleepless night, she was beat and needed to

Being doubted and distrusted over something he didn’t do really got under his skin.

Are you really kicking me

work, so no time for this nonsense. Please move, Jocelyn said firmly, about to close

sure you want to break up?”

irritated,

threatened to break up with me countless times over the

couldn’t help

over three years, they’d had countless breakups, mostly initiated by her, but each time he’d sweet-talk

time

someone else needed

struck by her indifference, felt a surge of anger and

there anything

then he stormed off with a push against the

Jocelyn felt a piece of her heart ripped out, the pain almost suffocating.

to the studio where Willow was prepping for

icy

cleared out except for

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