No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 225



Jefferson didn't give me a chance to say no, and I knew exactly what that meant.

Clutching my phone, I glanced over at Ernest and after a moment, walked over to him, just about to speak when he said, "I'm leaving day after tomorrow."

Leaving?

I paused, "Where to?"

Ernest kept walking, "Back home."

Back home, back to Galaxy Harbor?

But he had said he would stay, and he even rented a place.

Thinking about our rental brought back thoughts of the upcoming demolition and the favor Mrs. Wilson, our landlord, had asked of me-a favor I still hadn't told Ernest about.

I wanted to ask why he was leaving again, but the distance in his demeanor made the words falter in my mouth, so instead, I said, "I'll come over tomorrow night to see the test run."

Ernest looked at me, his gaze seemed to say 'you might be free, but I'm not.'

I braced for him to reject me, but after a few seconds, he simply said, "Okay."

that word was

things hard for me, choosing

that moment, I suddenly felt pretty

feelings for me, just like

more ends up getting hurt, just like it

grievances flooded my

as you would have them do unto

called out to him, "I'm meeting Jefferson tonight because I asked him to

gaze deepened before he hummed

dinner tomorrow night, and then we can go check out the lights together," I

I'm not a child. A slap followed by

I pouted, "Oh."

slightly, and I leaned in closer, "Big brother, if not

that, I saw Ernest freeze, his ears turning red

expected

seeing Ernest, usually so stoic, visibly shaken was both

l

thought he might respond in kind, he suddenly murmured, "You push me away, avoid me, yet you flirt

me feel as if

by

and