Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

PART 5 CHAPTER 191 JESS

I made it out of the elevator without breaking only just. The tears now blurred my vision, making the world around me feel like a watercolor painting that was slowly running into a puddle on the floor. Each desperate breath seemed to lodge itself in my throat, constricting my not just the

It felt as though my world had been ripped away from me familiar comforts but the very essence of who I thought I was.

"Jessica..." The sound of my name stopped me dead in my tracks. It was Luke. I felt the weight of his presence behind me, a gravitational force that pulled at my heartstrings, but I couldn't turn around. The chasm of everything unsaid between us loomed so large that it see to cross.

"Jess..." The distance between us shrank as he approached. His voice was raw and cracked, each syllable slashing through the thick silence like a jagged edge. I felt the heat radiating from his body, a wave of warmth that I had longed for during the cold nights of separatio I inhaled deeply, allowing his familiar scent to envelop me. How could I have forgotten this? The

way he made me feel secure, cherished, whole. Luke kissed the top of my head, a tender gesture that felt bittersweet. But this wasn't safety, it was a fool's paradise, a haunting reminder of what once was.

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me. My heart ached, but what could I say? Please choose me. Please undo your

a whisper against the thundering storm inside me. "I'm not angry. I understand...

deserved a chance at a family, and I won't take that away from him. I inhaled, shaky and hesitant, and gently disentangled his arm from my

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I broke free As I stumbled out into the bright afternoon

pushing off the brick facade and rushing toward me. "What happened in there? You look-" He hesitated, his eyes darting over my tear-streaked face and the

me. I looked up at him, my heart pounding in my chest. Josh hesitated, his brow furrowing as he scratched his head, fumbling for the

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air between us,

could feel the eyes of passersby on me, but I was too far past the point of caring. The chaos inside me demanded to