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Chapter 45

Author: Tee Growrich
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-03-14 23:50:24

Eloise exhaled sharply, looking away. She hated this. Hated the way her heart was pounding, the way her chest ached with a mix of anger and something she couldn’t name. Dino wasn’t supposed to feel guilty. He wasn’t supposed to look at her like that as if the weight of everything he’d done was finally sinking in.

She should’ve felt victorious. Instead, all she felt was exhausted.

"I don’t know what you expect me to say," she admitted, her voice barely above a whisper. "That it’s okay? That I forgive you?"

Dino shook his head immediately. "No. I don’t expect that." He ran a hand over his face, his expression twisted with frustration. "I just… I never thought about what I was doing back then. I was an idiot, Eloise. I was young and—"

"—and cruel," she finished for him.

Dino flinched.

Silence stretched between them again, heavy and suffocating.

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