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.

lungs burned. He couldn’t seem to draw in

birthday? Just because he had gone to Sharon instead? Was Natalie really leaving him over

mean to her? What place did he, Jensen, have in her heart at

pressure inside him

mouthful of blood, splattering it all over his phone

then, a knock came

If someone’s

sounded from beyond

no intention of answering. But then it

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this was something she

that she was gone, Jensen didn’t want to miss anything that had

forced himself up, wiped the blood from his lips,

“Whose package?”

and bloodshot eyes startled the

“Uh, Ms. Summers’s package.”

I’ll sign

pen, scrawled his name across the slip, and

was light, like

tore it

he saw what was inside, his eyes

training completion

Fracian?


Natalie attended

she had completed the full course over half a month. ago, and

when he and Felix had been speaking in Fracian-Natalie

last, Jensen realized why Natalie had left so decisively after he abandoned her to take Sharon’s

discovered everything he had tried to

had known, ten days ago, that he and

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