Chapter 26

The heavy raspy breaths on the other end of the phone were still blending together.

Jozeler’s hands were shaking, and sleep was the last thing on her mind.

was a hot mess, feeling like she wanted to scream her lungs out.

Finally, she hit the record button, holding it down until the caller hung up

She sat up in bed head hanging, her chest tight and short of breath for a long time.

No chance of getting any more sleep.

She watched the clock tick away, feeling like the night was dragging on forever.

When dawn finally broke, there was a knock on the door, her head buzzing, completely drained, and her phone went off

again.

“Melvin flashed on the screen. Her eyes were sore as she stared at the name, while the annoying knock on the door

persisted

After a while, she dragged herself to answer it, barefoot.

Melvin looked awful. “Changed the locks?”

Jocelyn lifted her head, and the look on her face shocked Melvin.

Eyes bloodshot, her face completely pale, she looked like she’d been through hell and back in just one night.

“What happened to you? Melvin frowned, reaching for her shoulder.

Before he could touch her Jocelyn dodged like she was avoiding something filthy, the disgust in her eyes plain as day.

Melvin’s face went cold in an instant Jocelyn, what the hell is going on?”

Jocelyn took a painful deep breath, still clutching her phone, and looked him straight in the eye. “Let’s break up.”

Melvin’s eyes narrowed, and the air around him turned frosty.

gaze turned

hard and played the recording on her phone, that unbearable, indescribable sound

heart

this? Melvin frowned, clueless

forced a bitter smile and showed him the call log, “3:25 AM, you called me. That’s when

pulled out his own, finding

last night, and Zephyr took me home. I didn’t wake up until this morning,

Jocelyn didn’t want to leave it murky. If he was willing to explain, she was willing to

and answered, “Willow.”

a loss for

building up inside him at her

fall, propping herself against the door, the light

there. Don’t come here anymore.”

was about to shut the

with his hand and said, I told you, nothing happened between

Chap 26

I have nothing either. If you’re just

was about to explode

resolve, determined not to let hirn in.

believe me? Melvin almost

a sleepless night, she was beat and needed to get

off. Being doubted and distrusted over something he didn’t do really got

deal? Are you really

for this nonsense. Please move, Jocelyn

sure you want to

was irritated,

fiercely, “Jocelyn, you’ve threatened to break up with

couldn’t help

countless breakups, mostly initiated by her, but each time he’d sweet-talk her into

this time

all, someone else needed his company

of anger and wanted to slam the

there anything

then he

of her heart

to the studio where Willow was prepping for a

icy

cleared out except for Zephyr.

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