All Chapters of Choose Me Too Late: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

“C-can I really stay here?”Zayla looked at Calix with tears filling her eyes again.Her eyes were so red and swollen that it was obvious she had cried through most of the flight.Calix had decided to let her stay in one of his condos. He planned to spend more time at his house anyway, and Zayla would probably feel better having a place she could call her own.“How many times do I have to tell you, Zayla?” Calix sighed. “Just treat this place like it’s yours from now on.”Her eyes immediately became wetter.Calix froze.Crap.He needed to stop those tears before they started again.“I bought you ice cream.”

The game between the Blizzards Wipers and the Pucks had already begun, but Nihan barely noticed anyone except Calix.This was supposed to be one of the toughest games the Blizzards Wipers would face in the playoffs. If they won, they would secure their place in the semifinals.But Calix didn't look nervous at all.If anything, he was playing even better than he had with the Thunders, which was saying a lot. He had been incredible back then.Lucy had once told Nihan that Calix was made to play hockey.Watching him now, Nihan thought Lucy had gotten it wrong.Calix wasn't made to play hockey.He was born to be on the ice.And suddenly, that thought hurt more than it should have.Because if this was truly where Calix belonged, how could Nihan ever become the person who destroyed it?From where she sat, she couldn't see his face clearly, but she didn't need to. His body said everything.He loved this.The moment his skates touched the ice, Calix seemed completely at home.The game remaine

The apartment welcomed Nihan with silence.She had lived in this small place for years, ever since moving to Manhattan. It should have felt familiar.Instead, it didn't feel like home anymore.Calix had never even been here.Yet somehow, Nihan could feel him everywhere.His laughter had never filled these rooms, but she could almost hear it. His presence seemed to cling to every quiet corner simply because he was the only person she could think about.She hadn't even felt this broken when things ended with Kester.And Kester had lived with her for years.That realization hurt almost as much as leaving Calix.Because now there was no denying it.What she felt for Calix was deeper than anything she'd ever felt for Kester.Nihan sank onto the couch, and the tears she'd been holding back finally came.She thought about everything that could have happened between them.The future she'd secretly started imagining.The moments they would never have.The words she would never get to say.All

"You're really not going to tell me?"Fred had asked Nihan the same question so many times that night, she'd stopped counting.They were already eight hours into the sixteen-hour bus ride to Thousand Islands, their hometown. By the time they arrived, it would be morning.Luckily, they'd found a bus going directly there and managed to get the last two seats at the very back.Unfortunately, those seats seemed determined to make them feel every crack in the road.Another bump shook the bus, making the windows rattle and the overhead compartments creak.Nihan sighed and shifted in her seat.Then the elderly couple in front of them pulled out a phone and started watching a video without earphones.Nihan almost smiled.Old people and their love of watching videos at full volume in public.But the smile disappeared the moment she recognized the video.Calix.It was a replay of his winning goal against the Pucks.Her chest tightened immediately.He'd tried calling her earlier.The first time

"You're really not going to ask me what happened?"Nihan stood behind her father, gently massaging his back.She had already settled into her old room. Her mother and Fred had gone to the market to buy a few things, though Fred had complained because he wanted to play hockey with some old friends instead.Now, the house was quiet.Just Nihan and her father.And sitting here with him reminded her exactly why she had wanted to become a physical therapist in the first place.Her father had once been a hockey player too.He had played throughout college and had even been drafted by a professional team.Nihan had been young then, but she remembered watching his games.Her mother had already been pregnant with Fred when everything changed.During one of her father's first professional games, he pushed his body too far.He hadn't been properly taken care of.Then he collapsed.He hit his head badly and suffered a stroke that changed the rest of his life.Nihan had seen it happen.Even after