Chapter 100~ Never Just Right

Chapter 100

Kegan

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The bottle of whiskey sat on the passenger seat, half empty.

Or half full, depending on how optimistic you wanted to be about watching your entire world collapse in the span of thirty minutes.

I took another swig, the burn barely registering anymore, and navigated the London streets with one hand on the wheel and the other clutching the bottle like it was the only thing keeping me tethered to reality.

*I’d pick Reid a hundred times over. A thousand times.*

Her words played on repeat in my head, each iteration feeling like a fresh knife wound.

*Being with Reid doesn’t come with all the psychological, emotional baggage that came with those few months I spent with you.*

Another drink. Another mile. Another moment of my carefully constructed control crumbling into nothing.

This was why I didn’t do relationships.

This was why I’d spent years perfecting the art of emotional detachment, of keeping people at arm’s length, of never letting anyone outside close enou