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

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I heard about Jace's car accident two hours later-Wayne was the one to break the news.

"Rea, Jace was in an accident," he said, his voice tight with worry. "He's in surgery... Can you come to the hospital?"

My hand started shaking, and before I knew it, my phone slipped right out of my grip and crashed onto the

floor.

Wayne must've heard the thud. "Rea, are you okay? What happened?"

Lena was in the kitchen, cooking, but at the sound, she rushed over, eyes wide with concern.

Wayne's voice came through again. "Rea, we're not asking you to come for, like, a blood transfusion or anything. We just thought... maybe you'd want to see him. Because..."

He hesitated. "Because when they put him in the ambulance, the only name he was calling out was yours."

Lena shot a look at the phone, then back at me, and picked it up without missing a beat. "Jace and Keira are over. She doesn't need to hear this."

hung up. She sat down next to me, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. "Unreal," she muttered. "After all they've put you through, they

fault, though... the things I said to

to Jace in the heat of our last conversation, so she was a

soft. "Hey, don't overthink it. This

hospital, but the

Johnstons. I hated

of him

scared me. If he was gone, I wouldn't even have the

out the Johnstons were behind my parents' deaths, I'd felt lost, like my mind was spiraling with too much to process but

to visit my parents' graves, but I hadn't been able to face it. Because it was my fault they

gone.

don't we visit Cloudscape Monastery?" Lena

was a good idea. I hadn't been up there since

a wish while

the day off, and I was

the recent rains had

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up, it'll take at least two hours

road up to the monastery, but now it was blocked. And still, I felt this weird pull