Chapter 119. Keep Your Promise

I spent the whole night crying in my campus apartment. I couldn’t face Ellis after what happened tonight. I was still hurting a lot. I managed to finally get some sleep but the door soon opened, and I felt someone shaking me.

“What?” I groan, opening my eyes. It was Lila, her expression solemn. She pulled me in her arms, and I held her tightly.

“Ellis chose her. He went right past me,” I croak, my chest tightening. My best friend pulled away from me and held my hand.

“He’s an idiot,” she said with venom.

We stayed there for a while, silently. My phone beeped, and I rushed to pick it up, hoping it was Ellis, but it wasn’t.

The day went by slowly, and Ellis had not reached out to me yet, and each hour he didn’t call, my heart bled.

Sleep eluded me, and the next morning Jace came to check up on me.

“Ellis is still confused,” he said, and I shook my head, getting out of his embrace.

“There is nothing to be confused about,” I went to the mi