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

Chapter 496

Hayden

just stared at me, silent.

My heart was pounding like I was waiting for the verdict on some huge screw-up.

Finally, after what felt like forever, he moved. He took my hand and said, "Keira, let go."

And just like that, my heart dropped straight through the floor.

Humiliation flooded over me, hot and stinging. I'd swallowed every last bit of my pride to try to fix things, and still... nothing.

He'd made up his mind.

He loved me, but he wouldn't be with me.

That stubborn jerk.

Anger and frustration boiled over, and before I knew it, I sank-my teeth into his shoulder. Hard.

he didn't push me away-just stood there and let me do

Part of me wanted to snap him out of whatever trance he was in, to make him wake up, make him change his

sweet-talking, promises, and now I was biting him with every ounce of frustration I had

else

Beg? Keep humiliating myself?

I

going weak, and shoved him away.

of my bed, then

holding in exploded. I grabbed my pillow, buried my face in it, and cried until my

showed up, I'd been lying in bed all day, completely numb, like all the life had

of me.

Jace's betrayal had hit me

in, throwing me her classic deadpan look. "I heard you lost a lot of blood, but

there.

didn't come, you'd probably rot here, and I'd end up on corpse duty," she

hand. "Can you not add salt

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