PART 2 – CHAPTER 107
JESS
I barely made it to the bathroom before the nausea took over. My stomach clenched painfully, and I dropped to my knees in front of the toilet just in time to hurl. My heart was pounding, racing too fast, and my vision blurred.
Tears streamed down my cheeks as I gagged again, gripping the cold porcelain, trying to hold on to anything solid while my body turned inside out.
I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t see. I was drowning in panic, and if I didn’t get my breathing under control, I was going to pass out right here in a puddle of my own vomit. It’s not the best way to make an impression.
If I vomited from running too many laps, I would have at least been able to hold onto my dignity – athletes vomit all the time. But this was me, being pathetic and useless and letting Bryan get the better of me even though he’s a long one and rotting in jail.
I hated him for it–that he still had this small ounce of power over me. I even forgot about it–this feeling where the world could just swallow me whole because Luke was there. He would spend the night, and I would sleep peacefully. When he didn’t, I could just call him, and he would be there without hesitation every single time.
If I had called him now, he wouldn’t have made it in time
PART 2 – CHAPTER 107
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anyway, but I wanted to. I wanted him to sneak me back to my dorm before anyone could notice
Another wave of nausea rippled through me, and I hunched into the bowl, trying to force air in through my nose.
Suddenly, the bathroom stall door flung open, and someone was pulling my hair back from my face, lifting it gently away from my neck. I barely registered the cool air on my skin, soothing the heat, but I couldn’t focus. My stomach clenched again, and I dry–heaved, but there was nothing left.
“Just breathe through your nose, a deep voice vibrated through the fog of panic, steady and calm, like simple instructions could actually follow.
I wanted it to be his voice so badly that tears streamed down my face. I missed him, and I needed him. I needed Luke, but this voice didn’t belong to Luke. Of course, it didn’t. It was someone else.
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