Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter 77

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I just smiled. "In my next life, I'll be born as their daughter. Then we can actually be real siblings."

Wayne's smile wavered, but he quickly nodded toward the gnocchi. "Eat a little more. You've been losing weight." "Okay," I replied, digging into the gnocchi in front of me.

Wayne kept watching me the whole time. I finally had to stop when I was too full, so I sipped on some soup instead.

"Jace still cares about you," Wayne said, trying to sound casual. "He even made cucumber soup for you, pretending it was from my mom."

I forced a small smile. "Better late than never... but barely."

The sore inside my mouth made eating a struggle, so I packed up the leftover gnocchi and soup. "Thanks for coming, Wayne. Let your parents know I'll visit them once this project's wrapped up."

I gestured around the amusement park. "We're supposed hasn't even been tested yet. It's insane."

inish in less than a month, but the lighting

to take care of yourself too," Wayne said, his voice

I replied. Then I pointed toward Hayden, who was busy

back to work."

Wayne reminded me

his lunch that day and barely said a word to me all afternoon. It was like he was mad at me, but I had

We got a lot done, and at least now we had scheduled

were on

But I couldn't do that. Every night, I had to review and summarize the day's test results,

got too tired, I'd splash cold water on my face and dunk my feet in it, shocking

me outside of work, messaged me just after I'd finished my cold water routine: You asleep? If not, come over. We need to talk about a few issues with tomorrow's testing

would've ignored it. But since it was work-related, I Teplied right away: [On my way.] Thankfully, I was

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Chapter 77

black cotton sleep pants. For some reason, he looked taller, which made me feel

a second, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he just stepped aside to

his screen around to show me. "Check these spots I marked.