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Chapter 102

Author: Dea B
last update publish date: 2026-07-22 12:38:47

Beckett

I watched Ella walk away until she disappeared around the corner.

She never looked back.

For the first time since we’d gotten together, I had absolutely no idea how to fix what was happening.

I stood in front of her locker long after the hallway had emptied, staring at the place where she’d been standing only seconds earlier. My brain replayed every conversation we’d had that day, searching for the moment I’d screwed everything up.

Had I forgotten something?

Said something wrong?

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    EllaThe room felt impossibly quiet.Beckett sat across from me on the edge of my bed, his elbows resting on his knees, his hands loosely clasped together. The torn note lay on my desk where he’d set it down, but he hadn’t looked at it again.He wasn’t demanding answers anymore.He wasn’t asking who wrote it.He was simply waiting.Somehow, that made this even harder.I stared at the floor between us, tracing invisible lines in the carpet with my eyes. My heart pounded so loudly I wondered if he could hear it.Finally, he spoke.“You don’t have to tell me tonight.”I looked up.His expression was tired. Worried. But there wasn’t an ounce of frustration in it.“I don’t?”He shook his head.“I want you to.”A sad smile tugged at one corner of his mouth.“But I don’t want you talking because you’re afraid I’ll leave if you don’t.”My throat tightened.“I wouldn’t leave over this.”“You don’t know that.”“I do.”“You can’t.”I hugged my knees closer to my chest.“You don’t know what this

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    BeckettI crossed the street three different times before I actually made it to Ella’s yard.The first time, I reached the edge of my driveway and stopped because she had told me she needed space. That should have mattered. It did matter. I had spent too much of my life ignoring what Ella wanted whenever it got in the way of what I wanted, and the last thing I needed to do was prove I still hadn’t learned anything.So I turned around.I made it halfway back to my front door before the look on her face in the hallway flashed through my mind again.Not anger.Not disappointment.Fear.I crossed the street a second time.This time, I made it all the way to her sidewalk before I convinced myself showing up would only make things worse. Maybe she needed one night without me hovering. Maybe every relationship had moments where one person pulled away and the other had to respect it. Maybe I was being selfish because I couldn’t handle not knowing where I stood.I turned around again.By the t

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