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

Chapter 518

Chapter 518

Finally, Jace had picked up on something off about Wayne.

I took a sip, buying time. "Why don't you ask him yourself? I don't have the energy to think about anyone right now."

His face went flat. "Yeah, you don't have to keep reminding me."

"Just being honest," I shrugged, then coughed, and Jace reached over, patting my back.

"Does Hayden even know you got hurt?" His question hit right where it hurt.

I held the cup in my hands, the warmth chasing away the chill in my body but doing nothing for the cold ache in my chest. "He came... then he left."

Jace didn't say anything, so I handed the cup back. "I'm exhausted. I need to sleep."

I lay down, and he stayed right there, just sitting by my side. My fever made my eyelids feel heavy, and as

I drifted off, I thought I heard him murmur, "You didn't seem this broken when we broke up."

still

Breaking up with him hadn't hurt the

slowly, over and over, til I just got numb to it," I mumbled, half-asleep, and rolled

Jace scrolling through his phone, completely absorbed. He hadn't even noticed I was awake. Seeing the food on the table, I tried to

phone aside, rushing over.

me?"

I muttered, not wasting

Every time you had a cold or a fever, the first thing you'd want when you

wrong. Most people lose their appetite when they're sick;

used to tease me, laughing, "A fever isn't

reached over to feel my forehead.

me a wet wipe to clean my hands

didn't even have to ask-everything

me deeply in those ten years together, he'd

pear, and butter bean soup, and gnocchi -dishes

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anything I wanted from a restaurant, but nothing quite tasted like home. Or, really, like Hayden's cooking. He'd spoiled