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?”

my tracks,

Cecilia, standing off to the side, spoke up, “Hogan, you’ve got it

a skeptical look, half–believing.

my hands

“I’m heading back

let Hogan give you a lift.”

declined with a smile, “Nah, it’s

thought about it, the more it bothered me. After this

Cecilia, I had this nagging feeling that something bad was

hope Wallis wasn’t

Chapter 20

ping of a notification snapped me out of

and, lo and

digits, my

or commend

hesitating, a message caught

words, no emotion to be

whether I’d

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

a moment’s thought. I putled up my friends list and hit

I

clocking out, Jack sidled up to me and asked, “Xaviera, what time are you

was clueless. “Heading out

was off, he added in surprise. “He hasn’t told you yet?”

normal since we

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