No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 3

Chapter 3



My brain got stuck in a loop all day, wrestling with this issue that refused to budge. Even when Conrad came by to pick me up in the afternoon, I was still clueless. But I went along anyway.

The habit was a scary thing. Over a decade, I had grown so used to Conrad and returning to the Wagner family after work.-

"What's up with the silence?" Conrad sensed my mood because he broke the quiet on the way.

I hesitated for seconds. "Conrad, maybe we should just..."

I couldn't even finish my sentence before his phone went off. The car's Bluetooth showed an anonymous number lighting up the screen, and I noticed Conrad's grip on the steering wheel tightened. He was nervous, a rare sight.

Instinctively, I glanced at his face, but he was already dismissing the call on the car system, switching to his mobile's Bluetooth. "Hello... Okay, I'm on my way."

The call was brief. After hanging up, Conrad glanced over at me. "Felicia, something's come up. I can't take you home."

I knew it before he said he was going to ditch me. It wasn't the first time. But still, part of me had hoped he'd drop me first.

A sharp pang of hurt hit me, but I swallowed my sadness. "Is everything okay?"

just gazing through the windshield. "You can get out here and

give me a proper explanation, just a dismissal. What else could I say? To probe or to fuss would just

you get home," Conrad said as he pulled over to a temporary parking spot on the side of the

his refusal to answer it in my presence. But I didn't ask, nor did I say anything. Some truths were like a thin sheet of glass, kept intact only

on your way!" He tossed me the line in a rush

until my eyes began to sting, and I finally looked

in my pocket, a call from my best friend,

you?

didn't have a

surprising

sun must be rising from the west today! Usually, you'd ask Conrad

squeezed my heart.

in Conrad's shadow for

with my best friend,

needing

today, Conrad made it clear I

or home?" I deflected instead

and

with Mr. Wagner?" Fanny noticed something was off the moment she

of my few friends, and I didn't hide the truth from

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