Chapter 61. She Chose Another

Ryder’s POV

My phone lit up. Finally, a name I hadn’t seen all night.

Leah.

My hands were shaking so bad I almost dropped the damn thing swiping to answer.

“Leah, where is she? Just tell me where she is.”

“You tell me, Ryder,” she shot back. Her voice was filled with rage that I shut my eyes and bit my lower lip. “How could you, Ryder?”

“Leah—”

“She saw you. The kiss, the whole announcement thing. Everything. You should’ve seen her face, Ryder. You just... you should’ve seen it.” She yelled.

I didn’t know she would—”

“Well, she was. And now she’s gone.”

“Gone where, Leah? Where did she go?”

“The woods. She just ran. Into the woods near the lake. I waited by the car like she told me, but… Caleb went after her.”

I stopped dead in my tracks.

My heart just… stopped. For a second. Then it started again, this heavy, sick thud.

“Caleb?” The name tasted like poison.

“Yeah. He got to her before I