Escape from Mr. Whitman (Emma and Theodore) novel Chapter 558

But by the time he rushed to her dorm, she had already packed up and moved back to Cresthaven.

When he chased her all the way to Cresthaven, he found out she was engaged.

He was always one step behind.

Then, as if fate had finally taken pity on him, he was given a second chance to win her back.

And he still managed to screw it up.

If he had just shown up a little sooner during the Edinburgh Festival—if he hadn't been so impossibly stubborn—would she have forgiven him?

If he had left the house a few minutes earlier the night she was attacked, if he had picked her up from campus instead of letting Theodore Whitman play the hero, would they still be together?

If he had just posted his defense of her a few hours ago, swooping in like a superhero to crush the rumors, would she have taken him back?

Instead, he missed his final window.

Rather than protecting her, he had tried to blackmail her with his support. Throughout the days of relentless cyberbullying she endured, his silence made him look like an accomplice.

Once again, he was too late.

But regardless of the timing, it was something he had to do.

He scrolled through his camera roll, selected a few specific videos, and started drafting a caption.

He typed it out, deleted it, and typed it again. He pared it down from a massive essay to a single paragraph, and finally down to just a couple of sentences.

After reading it over a dozen times, he hit send.

The video was shot from his perspective. It showed Emma carefully mapping out the choreography with Serena while her leg was still recovering. It showed her back in the studio, pushing the dancers, correcting their form, and hyping them up.

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