Todos os capítulos de The Goodbye He Never Saw Coming : Capítulo 51 - Capítulo 60

WINTER I wake up groggy, my body still stressed out from the fall. How long was I out? I blink at the ceiling, trying to remember where I am. Hotel room. Resort. Fell down a hill. Nearly died. Got 100 points. Yeah, that tracks. I look around the room. Nath isn't here. The bathroom door is open. The room is empty. Where is he? I sit up slowly, testing my body. The doctor was right—the rest and medication helped. I still hurt, but it's manageable now. Not the "I just tumbled down a hill and every bone in my body wants to file a complaint" level of pain I was expecting. More like "I got hit by a small car instead of a large truck" level of pain. Progress. I swing my legs over the side of the bed and immediately regret it. Ow. Okay, maybe not that much progress. I haul myself out of bed like an old woman and shuffle toward the bathroom. My reflection in the mirror is... concerning. I look like I fought a bear and lost. There's a bruise on my cheek. My hair is doing

WINTER "Go after him!" Treasure shoves me. "Now!" So I run. Which is hilarious because my legs are still approximately seventy percent bruise from today's tumble down Mount Doom, but sure. Let's add cardio to the list of today's disasters. "Nath! Wait!" He doesn't stop. Doesn't even slow down. Just keeps walking with his shoulders doing that tense thing they do when he's upset, and okay, this is officially Not Good. "Nath, please!" Still nothing. I push myself faster, ignoring the fact that my body is staging a formal protest. 'Look, body, I know we're not friends right now, but we need to catch that man before he disappears into someone's room and I have to have this conversation through a door like some kind of rom-com protagonist.' Finally, FINALLY, I catch up to him just as he reaches our room. I sigh in relief. He walks inside and I follow, slamming the door behind us. And then I watch him pick up his phone charger. His toothbrush. A change of clothes.

TREASURE After dealing with Mike's public humiliation—which, let's be honest, was a bit satisfying—I head back toward my room. My mind is still on Winter and Nath. I'm hoping they actually talked things out instead of doing that thing where people say "we'll talk tomorrow" and then just stew in misery for days and weeks. I mean, I literally shoved Winter toward Nath and told her to fix it. If they're still broken up after that, I'm going to be very disappointed in both of them. Just as I reach my door and pull out my keycard, I feel a hard shove from behind. I stumble forward into my room, barely catching my balance, and whirl around to see Mike stepping inside and locking the door behind him. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. "What do you want?" I ask, taking a slow step backward. A grin spreads across his face. Not a friendly grin. A creepy, villain-in-a-bad-movie grin. "What do you think?" he says. "Take a guess." I cross my arms. "Get out of this room. Right now

WINTER I wake up wrapped around Nath like a particularly clingy octopus, and for a blissful moment, I forget that things like "responsibilities" and "the outside world" exist. His arm is around me. My head is on his chest. Our legs are tangled together in a way that would probably require an engineering degree to untangle. This is nice. This is very, very nice. I could stay here forever. Just set up camp. Order takeout. Never leave this bed. And then there's a knock on the door. No. Go away. Whoever you are. "Who is it?" Nath mumbles, still half-asleep. "It's Treasure!" Oh. Right. My sister. The one who orchestrated this entire emotional breakthrough. I suppose I owe her a goodbye at minimum. I sit up...slowly, because my body has filed several formal complaints about my activities activities, and Nath groans. "What time is it?" he asks, his eyes still closed. I check my phone. "Almost ten." "At night?" "No, in the morning, you absolute walnut." He cracks

MIKE Having Winter this close, just the two of us in the water, feels like someone handed me the world on a silver platter. The resort pool glows under the evening lights, casting ripples of gold and blue across the surface. The air smells like chlorine mixed with jasmine from the nearby gardens. Somewhere in the distance, music plays—soft, romantic, mocking me with what I've lost. And I finally understand what I threw away. There was a time when this meant nothing. When Winter would reach for me and I'd pull back, already thinking about Olivia. Already choosing someone else. I remember her face—hopeful, patient, waiting for me to choose her just once. God, I was such a fool. But now I've been watching from corners like some pathetic shadow. Watching Nath make her laugh. Watching her light up for him the way she used to for me. The jealousy sits in my chest like broken glass, cutting deeper every time she smiles at him, every time she touches his arm, every time she looks