Love Coming from the Least Expected

Chapter 3

I was trying my best to appear calm, desperately hoping that he would believe my lie. But my heart was pounding in my chest, and my palms were sweaty.

I was pretending to act like I was used to doing this sort of thing so that he wouldn’t feel as guilty, but he seemed unperturbed, even smiling brightly at me.

Why do I feel like our roles are reversed?

“I should leave,” I told him, climbing out of bed.

“Want me to send you?” He sat up and got down from the other side of the bed, turning his back to me. Right then, I saw the long red marks on his back.

He noticed me staring and turned to glance at me in amusement. “You’re the first person to ever scratch me.”

“I didn’t mean to scratch you,” I argued.

“Then what was it?”

“You were hurting me, so I did it in self-defense.”

He laughed. “You’re the one who was too tight.”

you were saying that you’re too big?” The words escaped me before I thought any better of it,

you, huh.” And just like that, he chalked up all of my actions to be

that Lyle was cheating on me. I should have seen this coming. After

tell me?” I

buttoned up his shirt. “Tell you what? That Lyle hooked up with one of my friends? Or should I have

I was rendered speechless.

reached out for my hand. “Let’s

with him. I just thought the gesture was unnecessary since I merely

didn’t follow me

pharmacy to buy some morning-after pills

I arrived home. He must have really trusted me as he didn’t even text me to ask where I was when I didn’t

To my surprise, it was a text message from Christopher:

drew back

 Did he

 Don’t take any pills next time. I’ll wear a condom. The corner of my

then, I heard the sound of Christopher’s

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