Chapter 156

Emma’s POV

“You were gonna go in.” He said, looking away.

“I was.” I replied, unshifting.

He no longer had the courage to stare me down, and I no longer had the will to leave.

“MIT looks good on you.” He said.

“Thank you.” I smiled, “I could say the same for you.”

“I see you’ve made new friends, well old ones, but you know…” He said.

I chuckled within myself. Who’d have known that I could make the bad boy Chase unsure about me?

“Yeah, I had no choice.” I murmured. “Uhm, how are you?” I asked, just out of courtesy, I told myself.

I thought being brave and bold was gonna make me indestructible by him, but I was beginning to come off as antagonistic, and I didn’t like it.

Deep down, in the corners of my heart I hoped Kevin would never see, Chase occupied it.

I wanted for him to close the distance between us like he’d once done.

To treat me like his own. I was getting a little teary, so I dug my freshly manic