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,

bearing an olive branch

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it, my fingers brushing over the intricate

this?" I asked, but I already had an

see," he said, a small

carefully broke the seal and unfolded the letter within. My eyes

contents.

believe this..." I whispered, more to myself than to

does it

so many people with my opening performance at the summer festival that many underclassmen wanted my contact information to ask me some musical questions.

"Graduation party."

voice was low, and he seemed to be caught

we first met each

a moment, then said

realize

a student who had not long set foot on a college campus, Leo was already a

the epitome of everything I admired, and every girl in the school was

him.

graduation ceremony was grand, with

pinned to our chests, a symbol of the

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significance.

and Aria, ever the troublemaker, had taken advantage of my

sinking as I watched it fall because I knew I wouldn't be able to retrieve

as he came down from the stage

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

surprise, he didn't

and leaned over

"Elizabeth......