She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 1395

Chapter 1395:

“What are you doing?”

“Thank you for taking care of me these past few days. Since you don’t like me, there’s no reason for me to stay here and bother you,” Jessica said, her voice even, almost too polite. A faint, distant smile hovered on her lips. “I’ll probably move in with Jack tomorrow.”

“You don’t even like him,” Melvin said, baffled by how quickly everything was changing.

“That’s true. But if the person I like doesn’t like me back, then I’ll just find someone with a similar background,” Jessica replied, her tone serious, with no hint of irony. “My dad and Jack’s dad go way back. They get along well, so I won’t be mistreated if I marry him.”

Melvin’s hands froze by his sides. He wanted to tell her not to do it. He wanted to say that Jack—who couldn’t even properly let go of his past flings—wasn’t someone worth marrying.

But the words stuck. Because if he said that, she would only throw it back at him, reminding him he had no right to meddle. After all, he didn’t like her.

in a storm of emotions, he asked

Jessica gave

there tomorrow,” Melvin said as he shut her suitcase

back, “That’s not

his gaze, his calm and detached expression giving away nothing beneath

needed a little nudge. She hadn’t

while. I’ve got something urgent to take care of,” Melvin said after thinking for a moment. There was something unreadable in his expression, a complexity etched across his

her home directly because he knew her too well. If he’d said he would drop her

raised an eyebrow,

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Without another word, he picked up his

An hour later.