The Heartbreak Prescription by Glazed Snow

My Dad Please Come 864

Gilbert picked up a piece of steak and calmly began cutting it into bite–sized pieces.

“We can talk afterward.”

Halsey let out a cold laugh. “What exactly do you want from me? With your status now, you could have any woman you want. Why won’t you stop bothering me? Don’t tell me you’re actually in love with me.”

Gilbert paused mid–cut and looked up at her. “What if I told you I really am?”

Halsey’s tone sharpened. “Do you even know what love is? You said you loved me, but you betrayed me.”

“I’m done with Sienna,” Gilbert replied. “Can’t you let that go?”

“Once a cheater, always a cheater! You don’t love me. You’re just jealous that I’m with Shaun. Let’s be real— guys like you can’t stand being rejected. You can’t accept that a woman doesn’t want you. That possessiveness, that need to win–it’s not love. It’s just your ego acting up!”

Gilbert shot back, “No! I really do love you!”

“Enough! Even if you did, do you even know what love is? Your idea of love is that if you can’t have something, you destroy it. Your version of love is terrifying. I want nothing to do with it!”

Gilbert’s face turned red with anger. He stared at her.

any woman I want. So why do you keep provoking me? I cheated, yeah–but don’t act like you’re clean. You slept with Shaun. You even gave him your first

are together, what does it have to do with you? You and I never even truly started–we were over before anything

at her. “So you really want to piss me

also don’t want to be here having lunch

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got here, all you’ve talked about is Shaun! Do you love him

without hesitation. “Yes. I

Gilbert went silent.

looked out the restaurant’s floor–to–ceiling window, and there was Shaun, pulling up in his luxury

his lips. “You want to know about

“I’m listening.”

small piece of steak

are you

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Chapter 864

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warmly. “Open your mouth. If you eat this bite of steak I’m offering you, I’ll tell you