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."

word was uttered through

didn't want to make things hard for me, choosing to sacrifice his

I suddenly felt

advantage of his feelings for

ends up

past grievances flooded my

unto others as you would

to him, "I'm meeting Jefferson tonight because I asked him to look into something for me, so

gaze deepened before he

then we can go check out the lights together," I

I'm not a child. A slap followed by a sweet doesn't

I pouted, "Oh."

leaned in closer, "Big

Ernest freeze, his ears

hadn't expected this 'big brother' call to be so

seeing Ernest, usually so stoic, visibly shaken was

l

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

made me feel as if I'd truly

swallowing, I avoided answering by

and walked away,