Chapter 129

I freeze, momentarily.

I don’t have an answer, not one that I’m ready to say out loud or one that she wants to hear.

I have no right to her, I know that, and yet, the thought of her with someone else, someone who can give her things I can’t, tears at me.

She must see the hesitation on my face because her smirk deepens, a glint of triumph in her eyes.

“You know what I think, Hayes?” She leans back,