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

the recording on her phone, that unbearable,

each listen, Jocelyn’s heart

is this? Melvin frowned,

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

log on her phone screen, then pulled out his

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,

slightly and answered,

a loss for

building

propping herself against

Go back there. Don’t

she was about to shut the

with his hand and said, I told you, nothing

Chap 26

stubbornness, “You and I have nothing either. If you’re just looking

Melvin was about

resolve, determined

me?

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

doubted and distrusted over something he didn’t do really got under

your deal? Are you

got work, so no time for this nonsense. Please move,

you want to break

was irritated,

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

couldn’t help

by her, but each time he’d sweet-talk her into forgetting why she wanted to break

time was

know.” After all, someone else

of anger and wanted to slam the door.

there anything

lips pressed tight, and then he stormed off with

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

drove straight to the studio where Willow was

the makeup room, Melvin’s icy

cleared out except

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