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

Chapter 290

Matthew and Lindey always treated me like family, likell was their own daughter.

I knew that. I really did.

But ever since I found that contract, it's like there's this constant knot in my chest whenever I'm around them.

I just want to untangle it. I want to love them freely and accept their love without holding back.

Thorsten chuckled. "Like father, like daughter."

I froze. He'd just claimed he didn't remember my dad.

So, he was lying to me.

And why.

I

My chest tightened as I dug my nails into my palm.

Thorsten let out a soft laugh. "It's because Matthew keeps bringing it up. Otherwise, why would I remember someone I met twice, over ten years ago?"

My throat tightened. "Why does Matthew keep bringing up my dad?"

bodyguard started to move, but Thorsten waved him off. He walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out at the lush lawn outside "What do

knew how to

Matthew might've said, and I

him by the window. "Matthew was

his eyes still

out, too. The wide stretch of green

to. Even though my parents didn't

me to big cities, saying there was nothing special about concrete jungles. If we were going to

forests, oceans, and wide-open landscapes became my most vivid

the times we stayed in little cabins, drinking

once promised me he'd take me to see all the mountains and

been able to bring myself

Johnston family, whenever Matthew and Lindey went on trips and

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I always said

deep

it, afraid of how

your dad, but you're not the only

my breath,

with Matthew," Thorsten continued, finally addressing the question I'd been

put a

o sure