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.

about her," Francesca said, not

show she liked. "She's your ex, Luke. Why are you calling

clenched so tight it hurt. Ex. The word made me want to punch a hole in the wall.

Francesca, and for the first time in hours, I really Mooked at her. She was beautiful, yeah-supermodel

she walked into a room and

didn't matter right

it, do you?" I said, voice low,

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

down and folded her arms across her chest. "You're with me now, Luke. You need to stop obsessing over her. If you can't, then maybe we've got a bigger problem here." All the anger, frustration, worry-it boiled over, and I stepped toward her, fists clenched

dead right now. Or worse. She's

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like it doesn't matter? Like she doesn't matter?" My voice

Not anymore.

"She doesn't even remember you! Hell, 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

girl I could never really move on from. The girl I was still in love with,

make a choice, Luke," she said, her voice like steel. "Either you stop thinking about her, or I'm done.

stand that turned into something out of convenience. A good fuck when I was frustrated. I was the asshole that made her believe we could be

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