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Chapter 14

Author: Spring Flower
Emmett followed me during our last meeting.

He had always been indifferent to social media, so I hadn’t expected him to start sharing his life there.

Then my thumb froze mid-scroll.

The photo made my heart turn ice cold.

Cephalosporins and red wine.

I was out the door before rational thought returned, pounding on his apartment entrance, flooding his account with frantic messages.

Soon, he appeared at the door, wearing a black bathrobe.

"Are you crazy?" I shouted.

"You’d kill yourself just because I rejected you?

"I think you're seriously sick in the head, Emmet!

"I don't love you anymore. I really don’t love you.

"I’ll say it again— I don’t love you anymore! Not at all!"

His heart bled as my words echoed in his ears.

"I don’t love you anymore. I don’t love you."

The phrase echoed in his skull as he listened, strangely calm. Then—a quiet laugh.

Water trailed from his collarbone, vanishing into dark fabric.

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