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."

down next to me, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. "Unreal," she muttered. "After all they've put you through, they still think you'd

my fault, though... the things

the heat of our last conversation, so

kept her hand on my shoulder, her voice soft. "Hey, don't overthink it.

didn't go to the hospital, but the worry wouldn't

hated the Johnstons. I

idea of him

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

parents' graves, but I hadn't been able to face it. Because it

gone.

visit Cloudscape

hadn't been up

wish while I'm at

she had the day off, and I was beyond grateful to have

mountain, we realized the recent rains had totally

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to go up, it'll take at

but now it was blocked. And