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?"

question, but I kept

blackmail me with that video. Let her. I'm not letting anyone threaten me,"

to be blackmailed-whether in life or in business. Tanya had clearly miscalculated

but if she actually releases it? RiverwaveCorp will take a hit, and Matthew? He won't handle that well,

need your help," he finally

Ah, there it was.

my dad," Jace said, shaking his head. "Wayne and I? We're both brick walls with him. You're the only one who can actually get through. If it wasn't

snorted, giving him a

a little too closely. "I haven't seen you laugh like that in a long

seriously

is money. I doubt she'd

how to read

sighed, thinking about how Tanya had used Desmond who loved her,

+ 35 BONUS

Firefighters were setting up safety mats, but for a

a 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