A Divorce He Regrets (Raina and Alexander) novel Chapter 381

AVA

I kept texting Issac just to keep my hands from shaking. My heart wasn’t beating normally, it was stuttering, stopping and starting again in painful thuds.

Every step I took down the hallway felt too loud, too heavy and like I was walking on glass as I kept replaying Kye’s confession in my hand, every word hitting me like a slap.

He tampered with my father’s car. The night everything could have ended… he engineered it.

The thought made bile rise in my throat and the worst part? A piece of me didn’t want him to be that stupid and a stupid, fragile part of me that still clung to the warmth of his hands, the feeling of his mouth on mine, the way he always stood between me and danger.

But facts were facts, he hurt my family, he lied and he crossed a line that couldn’t be undone.

My phone buzzed again and I immediately knew who it was from.

‘Issac: Still tonight? I’ll pick you up around 7.’

‘Me: Yes. 7 is fine.’

I shoved the phone into my bag before I could overthink it and I was almost out the door of the classroom when a hand shot out and grabbed my waist.

Does he never learn? My entire body froze. “Let go of me.”

Kye pulled me around to face him, his expression a storm as anger, panic and desperation flickered all at once. “You’re not going out with him.”

A cold laugh slipped out of me, sharp and humorless. “Oh, I’m sorry. I must’ve missed when you became the boss of me.”

He stepped closer, his jaw clenched. “Ava, listen—“

“No. You don’t get to tell me who I see or what I do.”

“You don’t understand. There’s something off about that guy.” His eyes burned into mine. “You barely know him.”

He didn’t. Stupid girl.

At home, I tried to scrub the day off my skin… shower, lotion, makeup and perfume, but nothing worked. His voice still echoed in my skull and the look in his eyes burned behind my eyelids.

You’re not leaving with him. Too bad because I was definitely going.

“You’re fine,” I whispered to myself.

A car horn beeped outside. That must be Issac.