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Chapter 57

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Cameron’s POV

I don’t know why my hands wouldn’t stop shaking.

Like, genuinely shaking.

I thought seeing Brandon on those bleachers after school would calm me down, help me breathe, maybe even give me back a piece of the sanity I’d lost overnight. But instead… it felt like staring straight into a storm and realizing it was my own feelings tearing me apart.

And now I was in my room, pacing like a crazy person, dragging my fingers through my hair until it hurt.

Everything felt loud.

My heartbeat.

My thoughts.

The stupid echo of his voice saying, “I won’t stop fighting for you.”

God. Why did that make my chest hurt even more?

My phone buzzed on the table. I froze. I didn’t move for a whole five seconds before I finally reached for it, half-expecting Brandon, half-hoping it wasn’t, because I honestly didn’t know if my heart could take more.

But it wasn’t him.

It was Drake.

Drake: “We’re still talking tonight, right?”

My stomach twisted.

Talking? No. Arguing? More accurate. Because I wasn’
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