Hello 518

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."

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

murmur, "You

was still hung up on

wasn't wrong. Breaking up with

and over, til I just got numb to it," I mumbled, half-asleep, and rolled over, finally slipping

Jace scrolling through his phone, completely absorbed. He hadn't even noticed I was awake. Seeing the food on the table, I tried to sit up, but

snapped up, and he tossed his phone aside, rushing over.

me?"

muttered, not wasting

you had a cold or a fever, the first thing you'd want when you woke

wasn't wrong. Most people lose their appetite when they're

tease me, laughing, "A fever isn't a real illness for

Jace reached over to feel

hands and started opening up the

ask-everything inside was

me deeply in those ten

a caramelized 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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