Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

Chapter 519

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Chapter 518

Chapter 518

Finally, Jace had picked up on something off about Wayne.

I took a sip, buying time. "Why don't you ask him yourself? I don't have the energy to think about anyone right now."

His face went flat. "Yeah, you don't have to keep reminding me."

"Just being honest," I shrugged, then coughed, and Jace reached over, patting my back.

"Does Hayden even know you got hurt?" His question hit right where it hurt.

I held the cup in my hands, the warmth chasing away the chill in my body but doing nothing for the cold ache in my chest. "He came... then he left."

Jace didn't say anything, so I handed the cup back. "I'm exhausted. I need to sleep."

he stayed right there, just sitting by my side. My

I heard him murmur, "You didn't seem this broken when

He was still hung

he wasn't wrong. Breaking up with him hadn't

you hurt me slowly, over and over, til I just got numb to it," I mumbled, half-asleep, and rolled

up to the smell of food, and my stomach growled. Opening my eyes, I saw Jace scrolling through his phone, completely absorbed. He hadn't even noticed I was awake. Seeing

he tossed his phone aside,

me?"

starving." I muttered, not wasting

you would be. Some things never change. Every time you had a cold or a fever, the first

wrong. Most people lose their appetite when they're sick; I just

laughing, "A fever isn't a real illness for you; it's just

reached over to feel

to clean my hands and

ask-everything inside was

hadn't loved me deeply in those ten years together, he'd

mushroom and kale salad, celeriac, pear, and butter bean soup, and gnocchi -dishes I hadn't had in forever but had been

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