All Chapters of Two Can Play: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

His face crumpled, his shoulders sagging, his entire body deflating like a balloon that had been punctured. "Celeste, no, please, do not leave me, I cannot..." But I did not let him finish. I pushed the door open and walked out into the morning sunlight, the warmth of it hitting my face, the fresh

CELESTE I watched Seraphine clutch her cheek, her hand pressed against the red mark that was already blooming across her skin like a rose unfurling in fast forward, and I felt a strange cocktail of satisfaction swirl in my chest. Her eyes were glassy, her lips trembling, her entire body shaking

CELESTE I just smiled at Pat, touched by the ferocity of her loyalty, by the way she had taken my pain and made it her own. "Oh, you poor thing," Pat said, her voice softening again, her hand reaching out to cup my cheek. "You must have cried so much without having anyone to share your feelings

CELESTE Pat stared at me for what felt like an eternity, her hands still wrapped around mine, her eyes searching my face like she was looking for something she could hold onto, something that would make sense of the words I had just thrown into the air between us. The silence stretched and coiled and I could feel my heartbeat counting the seconds, until finally she pulled her hands away and leaned back in her chair with a long, deliberate exhalation that seemed to carry the weight of everything she was about to say. "What you are feeling right now is not love," she said, her voice firm, the words landing like stones dropped into still water. I felt my brow furrow, a reflexive denial already forming on my lips. "Why would you say that?" "Think about it logically, Celeste," Pat said, leaning forward again, her elbows resting on her knees, her hands clasped together like she was about to deliver a sermon. "You trusted Julian with everything you had. You built your entire life

CELESTE The rest of the morning passed in a haze of paperwork and meetings and conversations that I participated in without really being present. My mind kept drifting to tomorrow, to the conversation I would have to have, to the look on Dominic's face when I told him that everything between us w