เข้าสู่ระบบCHAPTER EIGHTYKENZ’S POVI was getting ready for class before my phone started ringing. I picked it up from my bed and glanced at my screen. And of course, it was him. Dan.I had ignored all his texts and calls ever since what happened. And today he was calling me. For a few seconds, I just stared at his name. I didn’t want to answer, not after everything that had happened. What could he possibly want from me? My phone kept ringing. I sighed, then finally answered.“Hello..?”He didn’t say anything at all.“Hello..?”Nothing again. A few seconds passed and it was still silent. He finally broke the silence.“Hey.”That was it. Hey? Tch. After everything he put me through, he just called to say hey?My jaw tightened before I answered.“What do you want, Daniel..?”Those words came out harsher than expected. He didn’t answer immediately. I could imagine the expression he had on his face. The look he always gave when he felt disappointed in himself.“I-I just wanted to see how you were d
CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE DAN'S POV My eyes stayed fixed on the message. You can’t run away from your problems forever. For a few seconds, I completely forgot where I was. The voices around me slowly faded into the background until they became nothing more than noise I couldn't make sense of. Jason was still beside me, talking about something I hadn't been listening to, while a few of the guys laughed near the front of the bus and the tour guide continued speaking as though the entire world hadn't suddenly stopped moving. But it had, at least for me. My fingers tightened around my phone as I stared at the screen. Who the hell was this? I clicked on the number, hoping there would be something that could explain why it looked unfamiliar. There wasn't. No profile picture. No name. Just a number sitting there like it had every right to interrupt my life and disappear behind a screen. Without thinking twice, I pressed call. The phone rang once, then twice, then a third time. Nothing.
CHAPTER SEVENTY EIGHTYOU CAN’T RUN FROM EVERYTHINGDAN’S POVThe first thing I did when I woke up was reach for the lamp beside me. My hands searched the nightstand automatically, but nothing was there.I frowned and opened my eyes. My gaze went straight to the side of my bed, but still, I couldn’t find anything there. I stared at the empty space for a few seconds before I remembered.I was in Boston, not New York.Back home, I’d always turn on the lamp by the side of my bed before I opened my eyes. But today, I didn’t.I slowly sat upright and rubbed my face. The environment felt unfamiliar. The walls were different, the paintings looked… cheap.Different sounds were coming from outside.Everything just felt strangely quiet. I didn’t feel this way while I was in New York.I looked around the hotel room. My bags still sat at the front, unpacked. My basketball shoes were at the edge of my bed, while my hoodie was beside me.I hadn’t unpacked anything since I arrived.I just didn’t fee
CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVENKENZ’S POVI didn't know how long I had been sitting on the floor beside my bed. At some point the crying stopped, not because anything felt better but because there was just nothing left in me to come out. The room had gone quiet again, the kind of quiet that sits heavy when you are alone with your own thoughts. Fiona had left almost an hour ago and I still hadn't moved from that spot.Her words kept circling around in my head. There's never been a time when I didn't want you. I hated how those words made guilt settle in my stomach. She hadn't deserved the things I threw at her. None of it. I had been angry and frustrated and confused and somehow she turned into the easiest person to take it out on. I rubbed my face with both hands and let out a long breath. Everything felt like it was piling up at once. Toria leaving. Ethan. Dan. Fiona. And somehow every single piece of it seemed to loop back to the same person. Dan. I hated that. I hated how even when I tried
CHAPTER SEVENTY SIXDAN’S POVThe moment I saw Kenz standing outside with Fiona, something in me dropped. I didn’t stay long enough to hear what they were talking about. I turned my back and left.I needed to leave. I couldn’t stand seeing Kenz looking this way.His hair was messy, like he hadn’t brushed it in weeks. He had on a robe with stains of pepperoni on it, and dark circles sat beneath his eyes. He just looked very… different.He hadn’t stepped out of his room since Toria left. And I knew I was the cause of that.Sometimes, I’d hear his door open late at night, but by the time I looked down the hallway, he’d already disappeared again.I left the house as soon as possible for the gym. Maybe that would ease the battle going on in my head. It usually did. Whenever my head got too heavy, I could always run to the court and forget about everything else.The drive to the gym was nothing but an instant nightmare. It was usually a fifteen minute journey, but today, it felt like an hou
CHAPTER SEVENTY FIVE KENZ’S POV The second Fiona walked through the front door I knew I had gone too far. I sat on the edge of my bed for maybe three seconds before I got up and ran after her. “Fiona!” She did not stop. I hurried down the stairs and pushed through the front door just as she reached her car. “Fiona, wait.” She stopped with her hand on the door handle but she did not turn around. I slowed down trying to catch my breath because running after her like that left me a little out of it. “Please.” She finally turned. Her eyes were red and that alone made my stomach twist hard. “I don't have anything else to say to you, Kenz.” “I know.” She looked away and I felt the weight of everything I had said earlier pressing down on me. “I shouldn't have said those things.” “You shouldn't have.” “I know.” There was no excuse I could give her. I had called her pathetic. I had told her I never wanted her. I had said things I knew would hurt because I was angr
CHAPTER THIRTEEN KENZ POV The mansion looked like it had been ransacked. Plastic bottles littered around the floor and red cups were covered on every available surface. The smell of alcohol made me want to puke. I stepped over a pile of empty boxes drenched with alcohol. “
Kenz's POV Chapter THREE “Shit,” I muttered under my breath. Jeremy pulled away from me so fast it almost made me laugh, but it would be stupid to do that with my situation right now. “Kenz?” my sister called again from outside my door. My stomach dropped. I was as good as dead. Ellie was
Kenz’s POV Chapter TWO I stared at the text for so long, not knowing what to do. Why the hell was Jeremy texting me? He had ignored me completely after spending the entire summer together, yet those few words he sent shifted something in me, and I really hated it. I finally decided to reply,
KENZ POV CHAPTER ONE "Fuck Jeremy,” I moaned as his hands slowly slid lower. The kiss was the most erotic thing I'd ever felt.He pulled his top up, and I saw the most perfectly carved body.“Get on your knees,” he commanded with his calm but deep voice.I reached out for his trousers, maintainin







