All Chapters of UNBREAK MY HEART: Chapter 111 - Chapter 117

Alex’s povThe night pressed against me like a weight I couldn’t shake.By the time I got back to my apartment, the city outside was still humming, horns, voices, the low thrum of nightlife but inside it was silent. I dropped my keys on the counter harder than I meant to, the metallic clatter echoing through the space like an accusation.I should’ve gone straight to bed, drowned myself in the kind of sleep that erases everything for a few hours but I couldn’t. My head was too full, too raw. Ezra’s words stuck like barbed wire, twisting tighter every time I tried to push them out.I love her.The way he’d said it. The way he hadn’t flinched, hadn’t lied, hadn’t even tried to soften it. Ezra, of all people, had stood there and told me something I’d spent years pretending I didn’t already know.Ava wasn’t mine, maybe she never had been.The thought made my chest tighten until I had to pace, crossing the living room with sharp steps. My reflection in the window looked back at me, fra

Emily’s povAva’s words hung in the air like smoke, filling every corner of my apartment, impossible to ignore.Her face was blotchy from crying, her body hunched in defeat, but her eyes were steady. Steady in that way Ava always was when she’d already made up her mind.“I’m giving you my blessing,” she said again, like repeating it would make it easier for me to hear. “If you and Alex… if something ever happens there, I won’t stand in the way.”It should have felt like relief. I finally got the permission. The loosening of a knot I’d pretended wasn’t there.Instead, it felt like a burden being shoved into my chest.I stared at her, trying to find the right

Alex's PovThe moment stretched between us, heavy but alive. Emily’s words, “I don’t know if I can forgive you, but I’m listening” kept echoing in my chest like the only lifeline I’d been thrown in weeks. Listening meant hope. Listening meant I hadn’t lost her completely. I didn’t push closer right away. One wrong move and she’d shut me out again. Instead, I let myself breathe in the quiet, breathe her in, the lavender and candle smoke lingering on her skin, the warmth of her presence that I’d missed more than I could admit. Her eyes flicked down, then back up, guarded but soft around the

Emily’s PovThe walk back from the restaurant felt endless.Every step was heavy with Jace’s words, echoing in my head like a song I couldn’t turn off.“I wouldn’t make you doubt yourself.”“You don’t have to keep bleeding for someone just because you loved him first.”“Love should be simple.”God.He was right. On some level, I knew he was.Being with Jace would be easy. He’d never once made me feel like I was too much, or not enough, or anything in between. He saw me, he really saw me and wanted me, even when I was at my lowest.And yet…When I closed my eyes, it wasn’t Jace’s voice I heard. It wasn’t his arms I remembered wrapping around me last night. It wasn’t his whisper that had pulled me out of the darkness I’d been drowning in for months.It was Alex.“I love you.”The words he’d finally spoken, the ones I’d waited for, clung to me like a second skin, and no matter how hard I tried to shake them, they rooted deeper, steadying me in a way Jace’s certainty couldn’t.By the time