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 hung

wrong. Breaking up with him hadn't hurt the way

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

completely absorbed. He hadn't even noticed I was awake. Seeing the food

snapped up, and he tossed his phone aside, rushing over. "You're awake!

me?"

muttered,

time you had a cold or a fever, the first thing

lose their appetite when they're

"A fever isn't a real illness for you;

he talked, Jace reached over to

me a wet wipe to clean my hands and started

to ask-everything inside was something I

though Jace hadn't loved me deeply in those ten years together,

a caramelized mushroom and kale salad, celeriac, pear, and butter bean soup, and gnocchi -dishes I hadn't had in forever but had

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up, nothing had tasted this comforting. Sure, I could order anything I wanted from a restaurant, but nothing quite