FAKE DATING MY EX'S RIVAL HOCKEY STAR のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 61 - チャプター 68

MIA’S POVI had finally stopped crying.Not because the pain had disappeared, and not because I had suddenly gotten over Ryan, but because there was only so much a person could cry before the tears ran out. After spending almost the entire night fighting with my own heart, I decided I could not remain broken forever.I had to start again.I knew it would not be easy. Some wounds needed time before they stopped hurting. But I could not spend the rest of my life crying over a man who had already made it clear that I meant nothing to him.So I got out of bed, washed my face, tied my messy hair into a simple ponytail, and forced myself into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for my mother.It was something normal. Something simple. Something that made me feel like Mia again instead of the girl who had spent the night staring at a phone, hoping a certain name would appear on the screen.I was placing the last plate on the tray when my phone rang from the small kitchen table.My body went num

MIA'S POV“Well, well, well, who do we have here?”I stopped dead in my tracks, my heart almost jumping out of my chest at the familiar voice, and for a second I nearly dropped the tray of food in my hands.Shit.I knew this would happen eventually. I knew that the moment I stepped into the outside world again, someone from my past would find a way to remind me of everything I had lost, but somehow I had still dared to pray that it would not happen so soon.“So, someone is now reduced to a waitress,” the person continued behind me.I didn't turn immediately.I knew that voice too well.“From being...what again?” he continued, his tone dripping with amusement.That was enough.Slowly, I turned around and found myself staring straight into the face of Logan Brooks.He stood there with that annoying smile plastered across his face, his eyes wide with amusement as one of his hands remained raised in the air as though he had just made some grand discovery.“From being Ryan Hayes's personal

MIA’S POVI didn’t know what to say, how to react, or even how I was supposed to act in front of the two people standing before me.Were they here to finish what they had started?Had Ryan really brought Rebecca here so she could stand in front of everyone and remind me that I was nothing but something that could be stepped on and erased from his life?They had already taken everything from me. My face, my reputation, my relationship, even the little pride I had left. But apparently it wasn’t enough.My heart slammed against my ribs so hard it hurt. My hands began shaking. Cold sweat gathered along my forehead.For the first time in a very long time, I realized something I didn’t want to admit.I was scared.I had always been good at hiding fear. Even when I was terrified inside, I would put on a brave face and pretend everything was fine and stood for myselfand my family. This time I couldn’t hide it. Ryan had really reduced me to nothing.“What the hell do you want here?”Another vo

RYAN'S POV“Let go of me.”The moment we got inside the car, I pulled my arm away from Rebecca and moved to the back seat, putting as much distance between us as possible, but not after being sure that no one could see us.“I never thought you were this cruel.” My eyes remained fixed on the restaurant through the window. I could still see Mia.She was standing with Sophie and the two women she had been talking to, but I couldn't hear what they were saying.I didn't need to. I had felt her pain the moment our eyes met. And the way she had looked at me... There had been hatred in her eyes. Betrayal and pain. She looked at me as though I was the worst person she had ever known. And I deserved it.My fingers tightened around the edge of the seat.I had once promised Mia that I wasn't like Logan. I had told her I would never treat her the way he had. I had promised her the world. And now I had become worse than the man I had spent so much time despising.“You knew she worked there,” I said