Semua Bab THE DEVIL'S BOY TOY: Bab 151 - Bab 160

 Ryker's pov Chris and Oliver probably sensed the awkwardness thickening in the room like smoke because Chris suddenly clapped his hands once and turned fully toward me. “So,” he started quickly, clearly trying to drag the attention elsewhere, “how did it go? Do you have your scholarship again?” Oliver immediately nodded beside him, eyes bright with hope. I instinctively glanced toward Ronaldo first.Big mistake.He was busy arranging his sheets on the bed like the conversation had absolutely nothing to do with him.Like I had absolutely nothing to do with him. My chest tightened painfully again.What better sign did I need to understand that he wanted distance now? That whatever existed between us before had already shattered?I looked away quickly before the sadness on my face became to

  Ryker's pov I ended up explaining everything to Chris, Oliver, and Ronaldo in detail.Well, almost everything.Some parts still felt too strange to say aloud. Like how Professor John Mark looked completely different lying helpless in that hospital bed. Or how my chest hurt seeing someone so feared turn out to be painfully lonely underneath it all. Still, I explained enough.The scholarship meeting.The argument.The collapse.The ambulance.The hospital.Everything. Chris and Oliver reacted exactly how I expected them to.Pure shock.But Ronaldo stayed unusually quiet through most of it.He stood near the corner of his side of the room with his arms crossed, listening carefully while trying to pretend he wasn’t deeply invested in every single word coming out of my mouth. 

Ryker’s POVI don’t know why I froze.I don’t know why the single mention of the condo made everything inside me suddenly lock up.But it did.The moment Leo said it, my mind stopped focusing on anything else.The condo.That place held too many memories.Too much of us.Everything we were.Everything we almost became.It felt strange how one place could carry so much weight. How walls and rooms could hold pieces of people long after moments had passed.I swallowed slowly as memories rushed through my head.The first time I was there everything between us started shifting into something I couldn’t ignore.The late nights.The conversations.The moments where I forgot about everything outside those walls.And then my mind dragged me to the last day I was there.The festival, Leo taking me out to experience it.The way I had actually been happy.Genuinely happy.Until everything changed.That girl that started recording us..I remembered Leo’s reaction.The way his entire mood changed.

  Ryker’s POV I don’t know why I was surprised.Maybe because a part of me had actually trusted Ronaldo.I trusted him enough to believe he wouldn’t say anything. Not because I thought he owed me anything.Not because we were close like that anymore.But because there was a time when he was one of the few people I could rely on.And now…Now Chris and Oliver knew. My secret wasn’t mine anymore.I walked away from the room, my chest feeling heavy.The worst part wasn’t even that they knew.It was the way they looked at me.The disappointment.The confusion.The way Chris’s voice sounded when he said it. “You’re involved with someone who’s engaged?”I hated how bad it sounded. Because it did sound bad

Ryker’s POVThe rain didn’t bother me anymore.At least, that was what I told myself.At some point, the cold stopped feeling cold. The wet clothes stopped feeling uncomfortable. Everything around me just became background noise.Maybe that was what happened when someone got too tired.I had no energy left to react.I sat on the bench with my elbows resting on my knees, my head lowered into my hands.Time didn’t really matter anymore.My thoughts weren’t even loud anymore.They were just empty.The only thing I could think about was that I should probably go see Professor John Mark first thing tomorrow morning.I still didn’t know how he was doing.After everything, after the scholarship, after the argument, after the mess that was my life, he was still lying in a hospital bed because of something that happened when he was trying to deal with me.A strange guilt sat in my chest.“Ryker.” someone called out.I didn’t move.For a second, I thought I imagined it.My mind was probably jus