Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 341

“It does.” I curled my lips, mustering all my courage, “If it’s the latter, I’m worried… maybe you’ve fallen for me?

He chuckled, “Worried? You think me liking you would keep you up at night?”

“Pretty much.” I spoke openly, “You’ve got a good personality, come from a good family, and you’re loyal. Being liked by someone like you, it’s hard not to feel something. But that’s exactly why we can’t be.”

“Can’t be?”

“Yeah, can’t be.”

I took a deep breath, looking him straight in the eye, “I’m not a starry–eyed girl anymore. I can’t knowingly walk into a situation that’s doomed from the start. Your loyalty, to me, is a flaw.”

“You helped me out earlier, and I’ll deal with your parents for you. Beyond that, let’s both keep our heads.”

That night, after I got ready for bed in the guest room Ramona had set up, I lay there, wide awake.

What did Gregory say to me during the day?

He said, “Jane, don’t think you’re the only one who’s scared.”

Before I could ponder what he meant, he shoved me into his car and had his driver take me back.

about to turn off the light, my phone on the nightstand buzzed. It

answering, “Hello?”

came through, “Come out. Hurry, it’s freezing.”

“Okay.”

down coat, and headed out while zipping it

I bumped into a solid chest, stumbling back

streetlight, Gregory leaned against his car, wincing from the collision, and grumbled, “So, being

smelled faintly of

nose. “Just wasn’t watching where I was going… You do realize it’s the middle

eyes, his voice cold, “I’m setting New Year’s Day as the deadline. If there’s no word from her by

knew what his “stop waiting” meant.

my palm, my whole being felt lost, awkward, and

you said you’d never

mint mixing with the cold night air, enveloping

a hug borrowed in

demeanor replaced with a serious look, his words clear and profound, “I wasn’t sure before,

the first time in front of him, I felt utterly out of my depth, a stark

and it had been a

“What makes you so sure I’d

confident about everything.”