Chapter 159

Chase’s POV

“I didn’t think you’d be here.” She said.

“I could say the same.” I replied to her Emma was the last person I thought who’d want to catch a break from the ceremony.

She was at the center of it all, and really did well at her job of role playing a perfect daughter.

“It’s too much.” She replied with a low voice.

“What is?” I asked, clearing my throat.

“The atmosphere.” She explained, kicking the grass in her stilettos. Her legs looked like they must’ve been hurting.

“Here.” I gave way for her to sit on her favorite swing. I could never take that away from her.

“Thank you.” Emma was being her generic self, the side that she showed everyone else. Shy and contained. But I didn’t like that. I liked that Emma I fell for, headlong.

“It’s nothing to thank me for.” I brushed the compliment aside respectfully.

We were so close to each other, each person pretending to be so consumed in and by their own world. But I w