LEAH’S POV“Can we have the mushroom ravioli please and a c…” I looked up at the waitress and she nodded as I continued to list off my order.I looked at Jack who was right in front of me and glared.“I swear to God, if you do not tell me why you have dragged me here today…”“Relax. I’m here because I’m in search of someone.” My face only hardened.“You brought me to a fancy restaurant just for that?”“Yeah. Saw her a few days ago and I was hoping she’d be working here this night.” I was about to smack Jack. I wasn’t even properly dressed. After we’d studied at the school library, he’d promised to take me home, only for him to turn right around and drive us up here.“And you couldn’t do that on your own?”“Nope. I just need wing man-woman.” He looked at me pointedly and continued searching.“I’ve been too frequent here and I don’t want it to look like I’m stalking.” My lips tilted up in a smirk.“But you are stalking. Is this about a woman, perhaps?” When he noticed my sudden eagernes

I pulled up at his house and helped him out of the car. I had to be gentle because he kept groaning. “Fuck!” He yelled. “Sorry.” I had turned too quickly and he’d hit his bad arm against the door. “If Julia’s men had found me in the hospital, they would’ve prevented me from being at the meeting. If I’m not there, it gives her more artillery against me.” I placed him on his couch and stood in front of him. “How?” I dropped my phone on the table in front after checking the time. We had enough time before 12. Aarav’s place was a little bigger than Jared’s. “She can rule me out as incompetent and unfit for the role. She wouldn’t expect me to be here, at Rav’s.” “So, what are you going to do?” I pushed back every thought that reminded me of the fact that we were together and alone. “She never thought we’d fight and so, she never expected that I’d look into her.” My head cocked to the side in curiosity. “How do you mean?” Jared’s face hardened and I could see anger lurking in the sh

Whatever Jared said… He must’ve been joking, regardless of the intensity of his stare, regardless of how his skin felt hot against mine, or how his light squeeze of his fingers, left a tremor quaking through my entire body, causing goosebumps to erupt in their wake. I pulled my hands away from him as we exited the company building. I didn’t want to make a sense, not after the ‘badassery’ Jared had just displayed, so I hurried my steps and entered the car before him. I drove in silence and continued to ignore his once-in-a-while glance at me till we got to his place. “Jared, what was that?” I dropped my phone on the table. “What?” I rolled my eyes at him, seething. “Don’t play dumb with me. What was that thing you did at the office?” “You mean confess my feelings? It’s not news Lee and you know it.” My face scrunched up in pain and everything I’d buried deep down, my feelings, things I wanted to say that I couldn’t, all came rushing up to the surface until my chest felt too heavy

SIX WEEKS LATERI pulled at my hair and groaned in frustration.“How did time pass by so fast?” Jack chuckled and slurped his chocolate milkshake. He didn’t understand what I was going through because he hadn’t been missing classes or anything of that sort. I’d missed multiple classes and notes and I was barely catching up. Thank God for Jack’s note, not that I would tell him though.I flipped the one thousand plus pages hardcover book in front of me and everything seemed gibberish.“Why is the text book so heavy? I swear Dr Ramon just likes to punish us.” Jack continued to slurp, finding my situation very amusing.I grabbed my scrunchie and threw it at him.“Hey! What did I do?”“Your input is just disgusting liquid sounds and chuckles. Fucking help me!”“Leah, you and I know you don’t need help. You just don’t want to read.” I scowled at him.“Exactly why I need help.” I opened the cap of my boba tea cup and gulped the content, wiping the spilled tea at the corner of my mouth.“Besi

“What do you think happened to him?” Rami was speaking to her friends and I couldn’t help but overhear their discussion, not when their voices were that loud. It wasn’t hard to know just who they were talking about.“I don’t know.”“I asked my mum and they said he messed with the wrong person and he’s getting jail time.” I smirked unknowingly and Rami caught it before I could catch myself.“What’s so funny freak?” My face pulled down in a frown.“Not your business boo.” I clucked my tongue at her as I brushed past her. I really wasn’t in a mood to fight. My study date with Jared was this night, so I’d been walking on air since I woke up in the morning.“Or did you have anything to do with it?” My heart skipped a bit. I turned to look at her with an impassive look on my face. Even if she had no idea it was me, she was just doing it to bait me.“What the hell are you even talking about?” I arched an eyebrow at her, folding my hands in front of me.“You might have everyone fooled Leah, b