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

Chapter 491

Chapter 491

Otherwise, he wouldn't have come around asking if I was pregnant and insisting on driving me to the hospital. Like, excuse me?

He'd hurt me before, sure, but this? This was a whole new level. One sentence, and he'd just crushed me.

But I wasn't about to quit my job just because we broke up. Thankfully, I had some fieldwork lined up, so I could avoid the office without raising any flags. Three days into fieldwork, Yuna called. I wasn't sure if she knew about the split, but I really hoped we were still good.

"Keira, I'm in trouble. Can you help me?" She sounded panicked, like two seconds from crying.

"Whoa, slow down. What's going on?"

"I'm at the library, reading, and my period just hit out of nowhere-my skirt's totally stained!" she said.

I let out a sigh of relief. Here I was, expecting some disaster.

"Could you bring me a skirt? I'll send you my location. Meet me in the restroom when you get here," she added, her voice way stronger than it used to be. And by her tone? She clearly had no clue about my fallout with Hayden.

"Okay, don't worry."

"Keira, please hurry."

help but laugh.

hung up, ditched my hard hat, changed out of my work gear, and headed to the library. On the way, I ordered a skirt and some period

out my phone to text Yuna, a

he

misread this as more than a random

replied, just as

of Narelle. She'd been gone

The last time I'd

at KRA now," he said, catching me off

Academy had been huge for him and Narelle. She might be gone, but he

+25 BONUS

dealing. If this was how he chose to handle things, nobody could tell him otherwise. "Nice. Maybe I'll sit in on one of your lectures someday" I said, just as my phone buzzed with a delivery notification-Yuna's

time to chat, so I smiled. "Do you come here

flickered in his eyes, and he hesitated. "Not... often.

clothes, and waved goodbye before heading to