Chapter 0417

“Get in your places, please,” Nathan called from the bottom of the stage. Bridget hurried to take point beside him. “Are you two ready?”

“Ready,” Nicholas said. He had his script out too.

“Ready,” I echoed. My heart hammered in my chest as I skimmed the first line. This was going to be even worse than I thought.

“Begin!” Nathan called.

I braced myself. Nicholas was set to start off the scene.

His eyes were locked on the script. He didn’t speak right away.

“I said, begin!” Nathan said again.

Nicholas cleared his throat. When he looked up at me, his eyes were hard. “We have to end things between us,” he said.

God, I knew he was acting but the words still speared through me. He was just reading the

script, but my

my heart crumbled up in my chest. It was too real. I couldn’t do this. I couldn’t.

I had to.

but it was also the question in my heart.

swallowed hard. “There’s someone else.”

“Who?” I read.

matter who.”

to collect myself. Just keep reading. The sooner this was over, the sooner I could pretend this never happened. “…I love

hesitated again. “Well, I don’t

and again. But I couldn’t help thinking that this was eerily close to how the end of

someone else. I almost had to expect it.

him for him not to feel it back was one of my

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each other right now, nor have we fully admitted the extent of our feelings for one another. It

I realized I was simply being a coward.

I don’t love you was shattering my heart like it was made of

not shocking then, as

I held up my hand. I didn’t want comfort here. How could I ever accept it? We were on

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