Chapter 30. Second Chance

He sighed, aggressively running his hand down his face. His frustrations were turning into anger, anger directed at himself. “It’s nothing… just go inside and change… your clothes are soaked.”

“But yours are too…”

“Delila~”

“Why won’t you tell me?” Her eyes averted, staring at her feet in the slippers that were wet and dirty, for some reason, she seemed down too, as though her mood has completely changed. “Have you finally realized that you hate me too? That I ruined your life like I ruined theirs… you and Beatrice were fine before I came here, and I messed it up like I did everything else… are you finally realizing that I’m really nothing but bad luck and that I deserved to die out there?”

“What are you talking about?!”

“No, what are you talking about? What’s f*cked up?”

Jake bit his lips, he was embarrassed to say it, but in order to clear up her misunderstandings, he had to. “It’s… it’s nothing of that sort. It’s just that I keep messing up. I’