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

Chapter 425

Jace looked at me, clearly still not getting it.

"Tanya was just the final straw," I said, giving him a tiny smile.

I remembered something I'd heard before: 'If you can laugh about it, you're over it.'

"Rea, I don't get it. Fine, blame me for what happened with Tanya, but before that? I was good to you," he insisted, like he just couldn't wrap his head around the fact that I'd checked out long before.

"I'm not saying you weren't good to me," I shrugged. "But did you ever stop to think about how I treated you? Or were you too busy looking in the mirror?" I asked, keeping my voice light.

He stared at me for what felt like forever, then dropped his head. "I didn't appreciate you. That's how I lost you."

"What's the point in rehashing this now?" I said, steering things back to Tanya. "Let's talk about her. You worried your parents won't be cool if you're serious about her?"

"Serious? With Tanya?" Jace snapped. "Do you think I'm a complete idiot?"

valid question, but I

not

be blackmailed-whether in life or in

releases it? RiverwaveCorp will take a hit, and Matthew? He

why I need your help," he finally

Ah, there it was.

distant. "What do you need?" "Talk to my dad," Jace said, shaking his head. "Wayne and I? We're both brick walls with him. You're

snorted, giving him a playful kick. "Stop talking

"I haven't

you seriously

All she really wants is money. I doubt she'd actually

knew how to

Desmond who loved her, just for her own gain.

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safety mats, but for a pregnant woman. even surviving

few firefighters into the belding My eyes flicked up to the roof of the twenty-something story building. There she was-Tanys, in a long white dress hair flying wildly in the wind. It was like something