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Chapter 169

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Skye

Jaxon seems oblivious to the fissure currently carving its way through my heart. He broke it once before and somehow I managed to put it back together. Now here I am, letting him do it all over again.

He was over me. I meant it when I said I needed to move on. He didn’t ask for this. Didn’t want it.

I shouldn’t care. It shouldn’t hurt so much. I walked away from him. And I’ve moved on too, haven’t I?

"What I can tell you,” Jaxon’s voice startles me out of my brooding, “is that this bon
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