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

15:31

World the Cold

fingers brushing over

but I already had

he said, a small smile

and unfolded the letter within. My eyes

contents.

more to

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. So the school planned to invite me

"Graduation party."

seemed to

met each other,

a moment, then said somewhat

realize

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

and every girl in the

him.

grand, with

pinned to our chests, a symbol of the

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significance.

day, and Aria, ever the troublemaker, had taken advantage of my distraction to knock my corsage to

sinking as I watched it fall because I knew I

the fallen flower as he came down from the stage after

reputation early on, a cold blooded battle crazed maniac who didn't want to die,

surprise, he didn't step over

he paused and leaned over to pick

"Elizabeth......