Chapter 31 The Truth Natalie Knew

He kept watching, only to see Natalie get up to close the window because of the rain, accidentally knocking over their framed photo together.

From behind that photo slipped out another one-of him and Sharon.

Jensen froze.

When had he ever put that picture into the frame?

Why didn’t he remember it at all?

Then, in the video, Natalie was laughing and crying at the same time, looking as if she might shatter at any

moment.

Even through the screen, Jensen could feel her despair.

He instinctively reached out to caress the cold surface of the video, but then heard Natalie’s broken voice say, “So Sharon is really your crush, and I was just the fallback.”

“No! That’s not true! Natalie, it’s not like that!”

Jensen hurried to explain, but what kind of response could he expect from a cold recording?

He watched as Natalie yanked down the paper crane wind chime, smashed it, and swept it away like trash.

A sharp pain tore through Jensen’s chest.


“Why? Why would you do that? Do you know how many nights it took you to fold those cranes?”

“You knew they were the proof of our love. How could you be so cruel as to throw them away?”

Jensen clutched his chest, gasping for breath.

He couldn’t seem to

he hadn’t been with her on her birthday? Just because he had gone to

what did he mean to her? What place did

pressure inside

cough, Jensen spewed a mouthful of blood, splattering it all over

then, a knock

home? Delivery! If someone’s home, please

sounded from beyond

first, Jensen had no intention of answering. But then it struck

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this was something

want to miss anything that had belonged

himself up, wiped the blood from his lips, and hurried to the

“Whose package?”

pale face and bloodshot eyes startled the

“Uh, Ms. Summers’s package.”

I’ll

pen, scrawled his name across the slip, and

was light, like it

he tore it

he saw what was inside, his

training completion

Fracian?


had Natalie attended

had completed the full course over

when he and Felix had been

left so decisively after he abandoned her to take

already discovered everything he

ago, that he

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