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

swallowed hard. “There’s someone else.”

“Who?” I read.

doesn’t matter who.”

Just keep reading. The sooner this was over, the sooner I could

again. “Well, I don’t

close to how the end of our whatever–we–are might end. By nature of

me there’s someone else. I almost had to expect it.

to feel it back was one of

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now, nor have we fully admitted the extent of our feelings for one another. It felt… safer that

was simply being a coward.

you was shattering my heart like it was

not shocking then, as

my hand. I didn’t want comfort here. How could I ever accept it? We were on stage with the

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