Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Before I even finished talking. Cecilia across from me suddenly stood up, staring past me, and stuttered. “Hogan.”

Her eyes were getting even redder as she spoke.

Hogan quickly moved to Cecilia’s side in just a couple of strides, shielding her with his body. and demanded, “What the heck have you two said to her?”

He said “you two.”

That included me too.

When Hogan spoke, a vein on his forehead was throbbing.

He was clearly peeved.

For someone as usually cool as a cucumber like him, this was a rare loss of control, especially with Hilary standing right there.

In my memory, those two, mother and son, had never had a heated argument.

But now, for Cecilia’s sake, even his tone with Hilary had an edge to it.

Hilary seemed blindsided by how things had escalated, pointing at Hogan and saying, “I’m doing this for you, don’t you know that?”

After saying that, she stormed out with tears in her eyes.

Just as I was about to follow, I heard Hogan say, “In a rush to brown–nose?”

stopped dead in my tracks, torn

got

a skeptical look,

bad for getting my

said, “I’m heading back

Hogan give you a

smile, “Nah, it’s out of his way.”

me. After this afternoon’s drama, I figured my cover as the ‘ex‘

dotes on Cecilia, I had this nagging feeling that something bad

hope Wallis wasn’t

Chapter 20

notification snapped

and, lo and

digits, my

call him nuts, or commend him

was hesitating, a message caught my

words, no emotion to be read.

clenched my jaw and accepted the money without a second thought, pondering whether I’d

touch. He’d never let me get the upper hand

I putled up my friends list and

balance, I felt a

asked, “Xaviera, what time are you heading out

“Heading out

something was off, he added in surprise.

normal since we

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