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Chapter 51 – Half of My Heart

ผู้เขียน: Amycee
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We ate the rest of the meal in quiet, the weight of everything we didn’t know how to say sitting between us, both of us lost in our own thoughts.

Zayne didn’t say a word the entire ride back to the hotel. He told me he needed to make a quick call and stepped out, leaving me alone in the suite.

After I showered and changed into my nightwear, I sat by the window, staring at the skyline fading into night. I had never seen him this distant before, and the quiet was starting to weigh on me.

After what felt like hours, the door finally opened. Zayne walked in without a glance or a word and went straight to the bathroom. The sound of running water filled the room. When he came out, a towel hung low on his waist, droplets tracing the line of his chest. He went to the closet, grabbed a fresh shirt and pants, and changed. Then he took his laptop, sat on the bed, and opened it, his eyes fixed on the screen like I wasn’t even there.

I watched him for a while before getting up. I walked over, gent
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  • Play Me Like You Mean It   CHAPTER 86 – What He Was Hiding

    We sat in the silence for too long. I kept waiting for Zayne to suddenly say he was joking. He didn’t.Cade laughed instead.It came out sharp and wrong, like a reflex.“Stop it,” he said. “That’s not funny.”Zayne didn’t smile. His face stayed still, serious in a way that shut the room down. “I’m not joking.”Something in my chest tightened until breathing hurt. When I spoke, the voice didn’t feel like mine.“Dying from what?”Zayne looked at me. He hesitated, then said it slowly, like he hated giving it a voice.“Cancer.”After he said it, everything felt wrong.Cade’s expression changed, not all at once, but piece by piece, like something he’d been avoiding finally pushed its way in.He grabbed a pillow from the couch and hurled it to the floor. The sound was loud enough to make me flinch.“No,” he snapped. “No. You said you beat it. You said you were fine.”Zayne nodded slowly. “I said that so you wouldn’t worry.”Cade stared at him like he’d been punched. “You lied to me.”“I di

  • Play Me Like You Mean It   CHAPTER 85 – The Reason

    Cade came back holding a bottle of wine in one hand and a carton of juice in the other.He set the wine on the centre table, twisted the cap open, and poured himself a glass like this was a good night. Like everything had suddenly gone right. Then he turned on the music. Something loud and upbeat.He started moving to it.Not dancing properly. Just swaying, shoulders loose, head bobbing, smiling to himself. Free in a way that made my chest hurt.When he said this calls for celebration, he meant it.He poured juice into a glass and handed it to me.“Cheers,” he said lightly.I stared at the glass in my hand. For a brief second, I wanted to dump it on the floor.The way he was smiling, celebrating, relaxed in a way I wasn’t. He looked relieved while everything inside me felt off balance. And that, more than anything else, irritated me, because my chest felt tight while his night had suddenly become easier.I took a slow breath and forced myself not to react.Then I sighed, set the glass

  • Play Me Like You Mean It   CHAPTER 84 – Ending Things

    When I got inside the house, the living room lights were off. Everywhere was quiet and dim. I assumed Jesse had gone to bed, so I went straight to my room, ready to collapse.But the moment I opened the door, my heart almost jumped out of my chest.Zayne was sitting on my bed.I blinked. “You scared me. I did not know you were here.”He stood slowly. “Welcome.”I stepped inside carefully. “You could have called before coming.”“I did not know you would be out this late,” he said.“Oh. About that… I went to see Cade.”His eyes met mine instantly.I exhaled. “He added his name to my emergency contacts without asking. I went to warn him not to do that again. Nothing happened. We just talked.”Zayne nodded, but something in his face changed. “Even if something happened, it would not matter.”The way he said it tightened something in my chest. “What do you mean?”He lowered himself back onto the bed as if whatever he carried was too heavy to stand with. “I came here because I need to tell

  • Play Me Like You Mean It   CHAPTER 83 – I Still Love You

    Neither of us spoke for a while. Cade ran a hand through his hair and let out a long breath.I stood there, still trying to process everything that just happened.“Maybe I should not have come tonight,” I said quietly. “If I knew my presence would break you two up, I would have stayed home. Now it feels like I caused it.”He shook his head. “You did not. This was already dying. I should have ended it weeks ago.”“That does not make it hurt less for her,” I replied.“I know,” he said. “But staying would have hurt her more.”I lowered myself into the single chair and tried to settle my thoughts. Everything replayed in my head, but one moment kept rising above the rest:Cade told Natalie he still loved me.I looked up at him. “You told her you still had feelings for me?”“Yes,” he said without hesitation. “From the beginning. If there is one thing I did right, it was being honest with her about that. I made it clear I was emotionally unavailable and she said she could handle it.”A small

  • Play Me Like You Mean It   CHAPTER 82 – The Shatter Point

    Natalia’s eyes kept moving between me and Cade, searching our expressions like she was trying to rewrite the truth with her own eyes.No one spoke.The silence was harsher than any shout.For a moment, I honestly thought Cade would step back, explain, soften the situation.He did nothing.He simply looked at her and said quietly, “You can leave it on the table.”Her jaw tightened. “Excuse me?”“The bag,” he said. “Drop it and go home. We will talk later.”That was the moment something snapped in her.She stepped forward instead of turning around. “Go home? That is what you have to say to me?”I cleared my throat. “I should go. This is not–”Cade’s hand closed gently around my wrist. “You are not going anywhere.”Natalia let out a small laugh that held no humour. “Of course she is not.”She looked straight at me now. “You just cannot stay away, can you?”I kept my voice calm. “This is not what you think. I came here to talk about something important and I am leaving.”“Really?” She til

  • Play Me Like You Mean It   CHAPTER 81 – A Breath Away From Wrong

    The living room was empty. The kitchen too. I walked down the hall and stopped at his bedroom door. His bed was unmade and his practice bag lay open on a chair. So he was definitely home.I was about to call his name when the bathroom door opened.He walked out, hair wet, water still running down his chest. A white towel hung low on his hips, the only thing between him and naked. His muscles were defined in a way that made my thoughts scatter. I did a full body scan without meaning to. The abs. The arms. The ridiculous lines running down his torso. Maybe it was hormones or stress or weakness, but for a second I forgot why I came.He noticed.His mouth curved in a small, knowing smile. “Wow. Okay. It actually feels great that I still affect you like that.”Heat climbed up my neck. I looked away so fast my vision blurred. “Get dressed. I will be in the living room.”I turned away fast, because staring any longer was going to erase every rational thought I had left.Behind me, a quiet la

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