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

on her phone, that unbearable,

heart

Melvin frowned, clueless

call log, “3:25 AM, you called me. That’s

her phone screen, then pulled out his own, finding no trace of a call to her at that time

I didn’t wake up until this morning, Melvin

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

frowned slightly and

a loss for words

building

against

Don’t come

was about to

hand and said, I told

Chap 26

just looking

about

resolve, determined not to let hirn in.

believe me? Melvin almost

a sleepless night, she

and distrusted over something he didn’t do really got

you really kicking

no time for this nonsense. Please move, Jocelyn said

want

was irritated, “Yes”

brow furrowed fiercely, “Jocelyn, you’ve threatened to break

couldn’t help but laugh.

countless breakups, mostly initiated by her, but each time he’d sweet-talk her into forgetting why she wanted to break up in the first

time

someone else needed his

of anger and wanted

“Is there

at her, lips pressed tight, and then he stormed off with a push against

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

to the studio where Willow

room, Melvin’s icy demeanor scared the

except for

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