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Chapter 29: Blowup

Author: Jewella
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-03 00:17:59

Alex~

The door slams harder than I mean it to.

I’m still vibrating from the sidewalk fight, skin prickling like I left a piece of myself out there something raw and newly alive.

My hands won’t stay still, fingers opening and closing as if they need to hold something before they snap into fists again. I should feel triumphant. I should feel free.

But my stomach’s flipping like I swallowed guilt whole, and now it’s wrestling with rage in my throat.

The lights are on in the dorm when I step in. My head’s already pounding, but the quiet rustle of movement stops me cold.

Seth.

He doesn’t say anything as I walk in, doesn’t even look at me. He’s crouched by the edge of his bed, stuffing clothes into a duffel bag, his jaw locked, that muscle by his cheekbone doing that thing it does when he’s pretending to be calm.

I blink. My heartbeat stutters.

“What are you doing?” I ask, even though the answer is right there in front of me, obvious and unfolding like a slow punch to the chest.

He zips th
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