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

Chapter 155

I shook my head, "Who the father is... well, that's her business. If you're that curious, why don't you just ask her yourself?"

Demi snorted. "Yeah, right. I don't have time for that drama. I'd rather spend my free moments swooni over Mr. Hart."

Hearing Hayden's name made me glance at the clock. He still wasn't back. Casually, I asked, "So, are y calling me after work now? Or sneaking off to the restroom again to avoid it?" "Keira! What do you take me for? I'm not that kind of person!" Demi protested. "Besides, Mr. Hart's beer surprisingly chill lately-he let us off early again today.

"Oh, really? How long ago?"

"Like, half an hour. I'm already home, chilling on the couch.

As Demi kept talking, I did the math on Hayden's commute. He should've been back by now.

But his place was still dead quiet. Maybe he got held up.

"You guys are finishing work this early and not doing any OT? Are you sure the project's gonna be done c time?" I asked.

There was a pause, then I heard what sounded like Demi swallowing, probably drinking water or munchir on something. "Mr. Hart said it would be."

done by the deadline, you're the one

we'll be fine. We're already testing in Section D, and everything's running

sound with her tongue. "It's so weird, though. When you were still around, there were always issues

other night, you'd be rushing to Mr. Hart's hotel room to fix something.

over here, praying something goes wrong so I can... you know....

totally drition in

far. "Maybe I'm just a bad omen, Mr. Hart and I never clicked, so we had constant issues. But now that I'm out of the picture, everything's perfect." "Hmph," Demi sounded unconvinced. "You're not fooling me. I think there's something going on between you two. Come on, be real-did

you and Mr. Hart, I'd totally support it," Demi said, way too

so stop making things

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of the hotel," Demi said, her voice all secretive. "Word is, he

dumb.

get this-he's sticking around Seavora for a while. Apparently, he's looking into

mentioned getting a place, I had no idea

died

Just hearing about Hayden's situation

made up some excuse to end the call. After I hung up, I just sat there, staring at the family photo on the wall. It was from years ago-me and my parents, all smiling like nothing could ever go wrong. But then a thought