Chapter 168. Damn You

She just… she wanted to be done with all of this.

“I am a grown woman, damn it. I don’t have to do what I don’t want to,” she said as she walked to the table to pick up her phone.

“I will not be coming to your place tonight. I am going home.” she sent the message and smiled as the tension in her chest immediately reduced.

She didn’t have to see him, be around him or even be reminded of him tonight.

Just perfect!

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Reyona ignored her ringing phone as she drove home with Aria’s latest song “Truth or Dare” playing on her stereo.

She knew who was calling and since she could guess what he was going to say, she decided not to pick up yet.

She was going to call him back when she was ready.

Preferably after she had soaked in the ambience of her familiar home that would be free of a lurking man or kids trying to tug at her heartstrings.

Where no one would try to pull her in further than she already was.

As she took the last tur