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I deserved this. I deserved these words ripping into me.

My voice felt trapped inside my chest. It was a long moment before I managed to ask, “You want me to leave?”

I’d never sounded more pitiful and pathetic to my own ears in my whole life.

But I felt like it.

The guy I loved was slipping from my fingers. I had failed him and now he hated me.

“I don’t want to ever see you again.”

A single tear started falling down my cheek before I could stop it. The first in a river of them, I was sure.

My throat was tight with grief, and I couldn’t even say anything else.

I couldn’t even tell him I loved him.

I saw all of my demons in front of me telling me that Henry wasright. That this was how it was supposed to end.

So with my tail between my legs, I gathered the shattered remains of my broken heart and left.

Chapter 33

Henry

My cold words burnt my tongue as I let them out. Never had I ever felt more miserable in my entire life, and when I saw the tear fall from Antony’s face, I knew for sure that I was the biggest piece of shit alive.

Or at least I felt like it.

My heart felt dead in my chest, beating but just to remind me every second that Antony was getting away from me. That this was over. That what I’d been fearing for weeks had finally happened, and it had been a blow dealt by my own hand. It didn’t hurt any less because of it.

“Was that…your breakup?”

The Keller guy was in the kitchen again. He clearly had no survival instincts, because I felt on the very edge of saying ‘fuck it’ and destroying everything around me just for fun.

It wasn’t a breakup. For that, we would have had to be together in a relationship, and we hadn’t been.

Even if it felt like it.

Even if now I could admit that I wished it would have been.

“None of your business.” My words didn’t even have bite anymore. I had no energy left.

God, I wanted this day to be over. This week, this whole month. I wanted to get in bed and hide under my covers until the world became different and thinking about Antony didn’t make me want to bawl my eyes out.

“I, uh…I think today was the wrong day to do it. I don’t know how much you know about me or if Antony has ever spoken to you about me—”

“He hasn’t.”

To be honest, I didn’t even know what he was doing here. He must have snuck in, which would have infuriated me on any other day after the exchange I witnessed between him and Antony, but right now, I couldn’t bring myself to care.

“Oh.” Dark brows furrowed. He scratched the back of his head, with his stupid slicked-back hair, before saying, “Well, I’m actually his ‘competition’ in class. I’m always one step behind the stupidly smart Antony Andino, but today, he wasn’t in very good shape when I last saw him.”

At this point, whatever anyone said to me should have gone into one ear and out the other, but still, I had to look at him. “Not in good shape,” I stated, but it was a command for him to continue.

Which I think he got by the intimidated look on his face. “We had an interview for a very important internship opportunity and he sort of…blew it. I overheard the interviewers say he’d been acting weird and they basically told me they hired me on the spot when I got interviewed after.” Keller cleared his throat, sounding a lot less confident than the arrogant dick I’d witnessed talking to Antony the other day. “I guess I’m just kind of shocked and, surprisingly, I feel kind of bad. Stealing his internshipandhis boyfriend breaks up with him? That’s tough.”

“I was nothis boyfriend. We were not together, and in any case, if you want to have all of your teeth tomorrow, I recommend you leave this house right this second.”

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