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

Chapter 253

After sending that, I added: [Some young hottie.]

Then I just stared at my phone, waiting. One second, two seconds, three seconds... still nothing. Um, what?

Was he mad? Or just ignoring me?

My fingers hovered over the screen, almost typing, "Hey, you good?" but then deleted it. Twice.

If he was gonna flip out over some random guy sending me flowers, then what would be next? Would he go all possessive like Jace did?

Back in high school, I had guys coming up to me all the time, and Jace acted like I was his personal property. Even when I was working at RiverwaveCorp, people flirted without knowing I was engaged, and he was the same-super jealous, always overreacting.

He'd get so mad. He wouldn't just get on the guy's case but also make it my fault for being, I don't know, too friendly" or something.

To keep the peace, I'd end up avoiding any guy friends who might set him off.

I swore I'd never let that happen again.

So, I tossed my phone aside and got back to work.

About ten minutes later, my phone rang. Hayden was calling

I frowned a little and answered, "What?"

"Why didn't you reply to my texts?" Hayden's voice crackled through, sounding all hurt.

opened up my chat app and saw a string of unread

not so happy about it, but I know it's not

some guy sends you flowers, I get it, but

joke like that. It makes me

through the screen. For a second, I wasn't sure how

aren't you saying anything?" Hayden

don't know what to

not mad, just... kinda jealous," he

but laugh. "Jealous? What does that even look like? Send me

for lunch?" Hayden asked,

he hinting that we should eat together,

to turn hirn down, so I told him I was having

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to have lunch with my girlfriend," Hayden said, making

being so clingy. Don't you

he'd mentioned earlier that he was leaving

for work?" I asked, repeating what I'd asked this

be

wasn't here, and they didn't have an office

your job?" I

Ron had suggested, I blurted out, "Hayden, why don't you join my company? They're hiring, and they could use someone like you."

know, at the same company.

still see each other whenever we