After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

Chapter 64

I hesitated, my thoughts racing.

I knew exactly what he was referring to-the moment I had pushed him away and left without explanation.

had something important to take care of," I replied, my tone more clipped than I intended.

There was a brief pause on the other end, then his voice, tinged with frustration, came

through.

"You didn't think I deserved to know what it was?"

I could hear the irritation, the jealousy, simmering beneath the surface.

In the past, I would have scrambled to apologize, to make things right.

But something had shifted in me.

"Leo, we don't have a relationship anymore." I reminded him, my voice firm. "I don't owe you an explanation."

He was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, his voice had softened, a note of vulnerability slipping through.

"I just wanted to pick you up and bring you home," he admitted, almost as if he feared I wouldn't return.

As if he was afraid I'd say no, he hastened to add, "There's a letter for you mailed to the

original address. Believe me, you'll want to see this."

His words piqued my curiosity and I made an appointment with leo. Soon, I drove to the restaurant where we had arranged to meet, and he was waiting for me in the lobby, his expression unreadable.

As soon as I stepped inside, he stood and handed me a formal, exquisitely crafted envelope,

with golden wax bearing an olive

15:31

I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

fingers brushing over

is this?" I asked, but I already

see," he said, a small

the letter within. My eyes widened as

contents.

I whispered, more to myself

it say?" He

mater saying that I wowed so many people with my opening performance at the summer festival that many underclassmen wanted my contact information to ask me some musical questions. So the school planned to invite me back directly to give a performance at the graduation party, which would also make it easier

"Graduation party."

seemed to be caught up

first met

moment, then

didn't realize

had not long set foot on a college campus, Leo was already a legend-a final-year student chosen as the outstanding

and every girl in

him.

with

pinned to our chests,

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significance.

Aria, ever the troublemaker, had taken

my heart sinking as I watched it fall because I knew

as he came down from the stage after his

heart sank, Leo was notoriously cold in school, I'd heard his reputation early on, a cold blooded battle crazed maniac who didn't want to die, and perhaps he was about to step on my corsage and leave as if nothing had

my surprise, he didn't

leaned over to pick

"Elizabeth......