Chapter 108. Escalated Matters

Teyana’s POV

After I said that, it felt like a heavy weight had been lifted off my chest.

I didn’t look at anyone at first, then my eyes moved to him like a magnet. Jeremy. He was looking at me now, his expression brightening with the slightest hint that I would have missed if I didn’t look well.

“Why is that?” John asked, but before I could speak, Zayne beat me to it. “How do you expect her to pick me where Jeremy is involved? No one ever does.”

Zayne said with a tone filled with pain, his eyes darting to Bianca for a moment, then to me, then to Connor. He was right, and my heart hurt for him.

“Behave like a man, Zayne.” It was Connor who spoke this time around, and I suddenly hoped for his sake that he had kept his mouth shut.

Zayne slowly turned his head towards him with a look that frightened even me. “Have you ever realized how beautiful your silence is, ‘Dad’? That should be your newly discovered talent, don’t jeopardize it with your