PART 4-CHAPTER 180 LUKE

The apartment felt like a cage, and I was trapped inside it, pacing back and forth, running a hand through my hair, tugging at the roots just to feel something other than the chaos eating. me alive. My phone buzzed on the counter, the screen lighting up for a second, but it wasn't what I wanted-no update, no call from Josh.

"Fuck!" I swore under my breath, snatching the phone and dialing his number for the hundredth time tonight.

It rang.

Once. Twice.

Voicemail.

"Dammit, Josh!" I shouted, throwing the phone onto the couch. The empty sound of the dial tone cut off as the screen dimmed again, and all I could hear was the slow, deliberate tapping of Francesca's nail file. Tap. Tap. Tap.

She sat on the couch, legs folded under her, casually filing her nails as if the world wasn't crumbling around me. Her glossy red toes were spread apart, drying as she painted them

meticulously, her focus on anything but me. She didn't get it.

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She never got it.

Francesca said, not looking

about the weather or some stupid reality show she liked. "She's your ex,

in the wall. She wasn't just my ex. Jess was... she was everything, even if she didn't know

in hours, I really Mooked at her. She was beautiful, yeah-supermodel

who turned heads when she walked into a room and made men divorce

didn't

you?" I said, voice low, barely

free. "She's not just my ex. Jess-she's more than

nail file down and folded her arms across her chest. "You're with me now, Luke. You need to stop obsessing over her. If you

right now. Or worse.

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what? Pretend like it doesn't matter? Like she doesn't matter?" My voice was rising, the words

Not anymore.

she doesn't even remember what you two had. So why are you acting like you're still in love with her? What about us, huh? What abou I froze, her words hanging in the air like a dark cloud. What about

really move on from. The girl I

"You need to make a choice, Luke," she said,

a one-night stand that turned into something out of convenience. A good fuck when I was frustrated. I was the asshole

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