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.

yourself!” His gaze turned icy.

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

heart twisted in

Melvin frowned, clueless

him the call log, “3:25 AM,

phone screen, then pulled out his own, finding no trace of a

Zephyr took me home. I didn’t wake up

murky. If he was willing to explain, she was

frowned slightly and

a loss for

fire building up

her arms fall, propping herself against the door, the light went from her eyes “You’ve

there. Don’t

was about to

hand and said, I told you, nothing

Chap 26

nothing either. If you’re just looking

Melvin was about to

determined not to let hirn in.

you believe me? Melvin

no energy left to argue. After a sleepless night, she was beat

and distrusted over

Are you

Please move, Jocelyn said firmly,

sure you want

irritated, “Yes”

a hint of reluctance in her eyes, his brow furrowed fiercely, “Jocelyn, you’ve threatened to break

help but

years, they’d had countless breakups, mostly initiated by her, but each time he’d sweet-talk her into forgetting why she wanted to break

this time

all, someone else needed his company

a surge of

“Is there

and then he stormed off with a push against the

Jocelyn felt a piece of her heart ripped out, the pain almost suffocating.

drove straight to the studio where Willow was

makeup room, Melvin’s icy

out except

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