Seeing it hurt me in ways I couldn’t have imagined before.

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He’d kissed me in the hallway. He’d almost kissed me in self–defense practice.

I hadn’t considered he would be kissing other people too.

“Piper…” he said again, softer.

I couldn’t even bear to look at him. I turned my shoulder to him and dropped my gaze to the floor.”

Please go clean up. Then we can talk.”

He was rarely uncertain, but he shifted awkwardly on his feet now. “Very well. I’ll be right back.” He

turned toward the door, and I did not look up again until he had walked through it.

Both Mark and Charlotte were looking at me. I felt judged.

Charlotte glanced away but Mark didn’t. He didn’t say anything, didn’t even hold an expression, but I

disapproval radiating off of him in waves,

my heart,

whoever he had been doing it with, he had

I was okay. In order of his

was a competition, and Nicholas was only trying to make the best of a bad situation. I knew, maybe better than anyone, the amount of pressure he was under to find

had been unkind

borrow your handkerchief?”

blue folded bit of fabric. I accepted it with

a moment,” I said, and rushed out the

far. He was only a few steps down

sleeve, “Damn it all,” he

I said as I approached behind him.

voice, and quickly turned. His

the handkerchief and wiped

lips and chin

stood very still as I

“It’s not my place to keep you from the other girls. But when I thought of you

jealous,” Nicholas said. His voice was monotone. His face, impassive.

deny it out of sheer

to keep you for myself, when we both

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