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?"

I

I'm not letting anyone threaten me," he said, full of that classic Jace

never allowed himself to be blackmailed-whether in life or in business. Tanya had clearly miscalculated with this

it? RiverwaveCorp will take a hit, and Matthew? He won't handle that well, I reminded him, tossing a look

I need your

Ah, there it was.

him for a second. In the early morning light, he still looked sharp, his features all chiseled and handsome, but there was a heaviness in his expression that made him feel 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 the only one who can actually get through. If it wasn't for, you know,

him a playful kick.

smiled, watching me a little too closely. "I haven't seen you

"Are you seriously ready

is money. I doubt she'd actually release the video," Jace

knew how to read

sighed, thinking about how Tanya had used Desmond who loved her, just for her own gain.

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but for a pregnant woman. even surviving a

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