Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

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Chapter 408

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I trailed behind Tanya all the way to my building. She waltzed in through the front door like she owned the place and hopped on the elevator.

When the elevator dinged to her floor, I could only think of two words: soap opera.

She was living right above me.

Like, was this some weird coincidence? Or was the universe just playing a bad joke on me?

Either way, it was seriously annoying.

Luckily, my neighbors were pretty much ghosts, so fingers crossed I'd never run into Tanya. But with the way she waddled-super pregnant and looking like she was about to pop-I wasn't sure how long my luck would last. Tanya, broke-as-a-joke Tanya, suddenly living in a fancy building like this? Yeah, I didn't even need to guess who was bankrolling her lifestyle.

Jace. He was a pro at this. Pretending he still cared about me while being a complete jerk behind the

scenes.

and walking away from his lies was probably the

why I moved here. He didn't need to-he knew exactly what I was trying

win, and wanted to celebrate. I had missed his competition, so there was no way I

buddies would be there. Hey, Steve, what if we hang out just

reminded me. "It's your

I admitted. No point

guess you're not over Jace yet, Steve

argue, but he went on, "I mean, if you were, it'd be no big deal, right? He'd just be

in the room."

His words hit harder than I expected. If Steve thought that,

time to prove to everyone that Jace and were done. Like, for

importantly, Jace needed to get it through his thick skull that

brooding stares he loved to throw my

had stuff to talk to Steve about, so I didn't really have a choice.

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Chapter 408

The whole squad. They greeted me like I'd been gone

see!" they called out, all

amazing." Eric, the

clinked it against his beer bottle. Eric, news flash: