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

swallowed hard and played the recording on her phone, that

each listen, Jocelyn’s heart

this? Melvin

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

the call log on her phone screen, then pulled out his own, finding no

Zephyr took me home. I didn’t wake up until this morning, Melvin explained

it murky. If

slightly and answered,

was at a

home too, Melvin added, fire building up inside him at

propping herself against the door, the light went from

Go back there. Don’t come

she was about to shut the door

and said, I told you, nothing happened between

Chap 26

“You and I have nothing either. If you’re just looking for booty calls,

about

with resolve, determined not to

me? Melvin almost

energy left to argue. After a sleepless night, she was beat and needed to get ready for work.

and distrusted over something he didn’t do really

your deal? Are you

time for this nonsense. Please

want to break

was irritated,

reluctance in her eyes, his brow furrowed fiercely, “Jocelyn, you’ve threatened to break up with me countless times over the years, not every time will I play the

help but laugh.

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

this time

all, someone else needed his

felt a surge of anger and wanted

“Is there anything else?”

her, lips pressed tight, and then he stormed off

piece of her heart

to the studio where Willow

the makeup room, Melvin’s icy demeanor

out except

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