Chapter 71

I hesitated for a moment, fingers hovering over the keyboard before finally typing my reply.

"He's nothing."

A petty response, perhaps. But at that moment, it felt fitting.

Because if I were being honest-truly, painfully honest-Pax had been good to

me in almost every way.

Attentive, thoughtful, the kind of person who remembered the little things.

Except for one.

He never let me look at his phone.

pinned post on my Instagram is a

laced with that familiar blend of amusement and indulgence, as if my suspicions were nothing more than

would catch the tip of my nose, giving

you need to trust

his lips brushing against mine in

"Absolute possession, relative freedom-deal?"

eyes at the way he phrased it, finding it just a little too poetic, a little too

end, I had

a

And yet-

from the very beginning,

never let me touch his

yet, somehow, Nina could use it-to text

the bed, letting the silence stretch

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