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Chapter Forty Four

Author: Bennie Black
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-11-19 07:43:58

EMMA’S POV

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

I hit my fist on the wheel until the horn blares in an ugly, broken sound that mirrors the mess in my chest. I am parked in a street not so far away from my flower shop, but my body feels nailed to the driver’s seat.

How? So, he still loves Sophia?

Hot tears burn down my cheeks in torrents, stinging against my skin, ruining the mascara I forced myself to wear this morning. The powder I brushed carefully across my face is nothing now but muddy streaks of shame.

Alex’s eyes replay in my mind— those stormy blue eyes that locked with mine when Sophia called him “love.” He didn’t deny her. He didn’t move away. He didn’t try to explain with words, he didn’t chase after me when I left.

Instead, he just stood there, frozen, looking guilty. Guilty because he had already chosen her, I guess.

My chest heaves. I can still hear Sophia’s mocking chuckle echoing in the back of my skull, that triumphant smirk etched on her lips as she draped herself around Alex l
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