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."

was still

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

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

growled. Opening my eyes, I saw Jace scrolling through his phone, completely absorbed. He hadn't even noticed I was awake. Seeing the food on the table, I tried to sit up, but the

and he tossed his phone aside, rushing over.

me?"

starving." I muttered, not

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

lose their appetite when they're sick; I just got

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

reached over to

to clean my hands and started opening up the

even have to ask-everything inside was something I

me deeply in those ten years together, he'd always remembered

pear, and butter bean soup, and gnocchi -dishes I

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restaurant, but nothing quite tasted like home. Or, really, like Hayden's