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I sighed. “Best friends don’tpusheach other or try to be nosy.”

“That’s where you’re wrong, Hen. Being a best friend is nosy business. It’s the only way.”

Making an effort not to roll my eyes, I finished my coffee. “Just drop it, okay? I don’t…I can’t talk about it yet.”

This thing with Antony had felt like a fresh wound for so long, and now it had been…temporarily treated. Even if it wouldn’t be anymore.

Because there wouldn’t be any more repeats.

No matter how much I wanted to.

Maddox’s shoulders noticeably relaxed. “Fine. ‘Yet’ is good. But at least tell me—do you know what you’re doing here?”

My outburst last night, my moment ofweakness, had clearly signaled that I didn’t.

But I had no other option but to be strong.

“I do.”

Icy-blue eyes examined me closely. “Good.” He got up, mug in hand. “Just remember, if it becomes a burden, do what you do best. You’re the Heartbreaker for a reason.”

That mademetense up, because obviously he was now getting more of an idea of what was really going on.

And it wasn’t that Antony was a monster by any means.

I nodded and waited until he left to exhale pitifully.

Telling myself that Ididknow what I was doing only made me feel like I definitely didn’t. It felt too much like being in denial.

Because the truth was that I feared the heartbroken one was inevitably going to be me, just like last time.

Chapter 17

Antony

“I heard you got into trouble the other night, Andino,” said the most annoying person in this world.

Edward Keller.

Fellow Business major, my greatest competitor for the top spot in almost every class, and a gigantic pain in my ass.

“Maybe you should listen less to gossip and study more, that way you’d actually be the top in at leastoneclass.”

It was a dick move, but he brought out the worst in me.

“Andmaybeyou’re getting cocky now that you’ve been hanging out with Henry Campbell.”

My jaw tightened and I closed my eyes for a long second. I’d been reading—more likere-reading—my thread of texts with Henry. There weren’t many, and most were quite to the point, but yesterday he’d told me he was ‘giving me the day off’’ and he might come find me today if he felt like it.

Locking my phone and looking up at the bane of my existence, I told myself to be a little more humble.Hubriswas not only ugly, but it made things sweeter for other people when life knocked you down a peg, and I didn’t need that.

“I’m not cocky. You’re just annoying me.”

“Aren’t you?” he asked. Keller wore his dark hair gelled back, in the most douchebag hairstyle possible, but I had to admit that even then he wasn’t unattractive. “Because I think that this attitude you’ve been having lately is related to being Campbell’s flavor of the week, and just in case you didn’t know, it won’t last.”

The fact that he hitexactlywhere it hurt annoyed me immensely, and I prayed that my face, for once, didn’t let it show. Crossing my arms, I leaned back against my chair. “Jealous, much? I know you’re obsessed with me Keller, but going this far is a bit too much.”

Other students who had been eavesdropping chuckled to themselves lightheartedly as Keller blushed the tiniest bit. I had no grand ideas that he was secretly in love with me or anything. His embarrassment was purely about getting a verbal lashing in public.

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