ART 5-CHAPTER 189

JESS

He stepped into view, and my heart skidded to a stop.

Luke.

I could barely breathe as the memories flooded me-moments of us laughing in the dark, our endless fights, the feel of his arms around me, stolen kisses, and every whispered word, every night spent in his My hands itched to reach for him, close the gap between us, and throw myself into his arms like no time had passed.

and then... the heat between us, t

armIS.

But he looked... different. The more I took him in, the less he seemed to be the Luke I remember. Luke had always carried an intensity, but this was something else entirely- something raw and sad that made me feel like I was staring at a stranger. It was like he'd aged a lifetime since we'd last seen each other.

"Luke," I whispered, my voice trembling.

He looked up, and for a moment, he was just as lost as I was. His gaze softened as it locked onto mine, his jaw slightly slack. "Jess," he murmured, the sound of my name on his lips breaking something inside me.

We stood there, suspended in a bubble that held only the two of us, and I felt every bit of the past rush between us like an electric current.

she appeared

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who opened

in front of my face, her voice sharp and condescending. I blinked, thrown from the trance, my gaze snapping

her claim on him. "Why are you staring at my fiancé?" she sneered, the word hitting me

felt the words slip out without even meaning to. "Fiancé?" I repeated,

curled into a smirk, her head bobbing up and down with almost gleeful satisfaction. "Yeah, fiancé," she repeated, a cold glint

sign that this wasn't real, that she was just twisting things, playing some cruel game. But he just stood there,

Anything.

me off with a sing-song tone, "technically, I'm more than his fiancée."

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hand settling on her stomach. "Luke here is my

phrase echoed in my mind, louder and louder, until I

something smug, as if she'd just

to process it, to make sense of how any of this could be real. It felt like I was falling, like the world had shifted beneath

whisper, fighting back the stinging tears that were already slipping down

to say something, but no words came. He looked like he'd been struck just

Now.

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