Chapter 108

Danica's POV 

"She's just an acquaintance"

That was the one response I expected but still didn't expect to hit a painful nerve.

"I guess she's just so special that you can't even tell me how you met or who exactly she is to you?" I muttered, my voice cracking beneath the fierce defence edge I had up.

And the last draw was when he didn't respond. That silence, as short as it was, said so many things that made me feel like the version of myself who was twice rejected brutally. Except, this hurt more than those two times. Or maybe it's just my jealousy speaking?

I didn't press further, and he said nothing in response to my silence as well. He just watched as I walked out of his presence until I was out of his sight.

The entire facade I had on in fron