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.

His gaze turned

and played the recording on her

each listen, Jocelyn’s heart twisted in agony.

this? Melvin frowned,

the call log, “3:25 AM, you called me. That’s when I heard this

call log on her phone screen, then pulled out his own, finding no trace of a call to her

last night, and Zephyr took me home. I

leave it murky. If he was willing to explain, she was willing to

and answered,

a loss

Melvin added, fire building up inside

propping herself against the

Don’t come

about to shut

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

Chap 26

have nothing either. If you’re just looking

Melvin was about

door with resolve, determined not to

believe me? Melvin almost

After a sleepless night, she

and distrusted over something he didn’t do really got under his skin.

Are you

work, so no time for this nonsense. Please move, Jocelyn said firmly, about

sure you want to break up?”

was irritated, “Yes”

threatened to break up with me countless times over the years, not every time

couldn’t help but laugh.

her, but each time he’d sweet-talk her into forgetting

time was different.

After all, someone else

surge of anger and wanted to slam the

there

tight, and then he stormed off with a push against

a piece of her heart

studio where Willow was prepping for a shoot.

Melvin’s icy demeanor scared the

out except

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