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."

couldn't help but laugh.

work gear, and headed to the library. On the way, I ordered a skirt and some period panties

pulled out my phone to text Yuna, a familiar figure stepped out

and he froze,

him last time, I figured he probably thought I'd misread this as more than a random run-in. But, hey, this was

he replied, just

couldn't help but think of Narelle. She'd been gone a

I admitted. The last time I'd seen him was

he said, catching me

for him and Narelle. She might

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has their own way of 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"

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

in his eyes, and

and waved goodbye before heading to