Chapter 17

Vivian’s POV

Chris stood up, grabbing his clothes. “Where are you going?”

“For a walk.”

“Are you really going to do this? Right after we…”

He spun around, glaring at me. “Right after you broke my heart?”

I gasped. “Chris, I…”

He kneeled in front of me. “I can’t do this, Vivid. I can’t keep pretending that I don’t care about you when I do. I’ve always cared about you. You were always around that bastard, Zeke, though. I pushed your buttons to make the real you come out, and finally, the real you are shining, and the real you don’t seem to want me. And I can’t take that.”

I searched his eyes, looking for the joke. There was no way this was the Chris who tormented me throughout school. “It’s not you. I know people say that, but it’s really not. It’s the timing…”

He shoved off the bed, standing again. “But the timing was okay for Caleb?”

“I wasn’t going actually to date Caleb right now. I was going to discuss a possible future