He Never Noticed Me Until I Loved Someone Else novel Chapter 274

She had merely intended to clear the air with Jarrod, so how on earth had things spiraled into this chaotic, borderline scandalous mess?

Forcing the agonizing awkwardness down, she slowly stepped back out into the living room.

Jarrod was still sitting exactly where she had left him, his expression already smoothed back into cool composure.

Just thinking about how close they had been to completely losing control made her face heat up all over again.

Eager to shatter the thick tension, she took a seat on the adjacent armchair. "What were you doing at the club tonight?" she asked, though her voice betrayed her with a lingering, breathless huskiness.

Suppressing the raw heat still simmering in his veins, he replied in a rough gravel. "Silas called me. He mentioned running into you and your friend there. I happened to have a business dinner nearby, so I dropped by."

So, Silas was the informant.

Hearing the undeniable rasp in his tone made her own throat suddenly feel impossibly dry. She hastily grabbed the glass of water and took a desperate gulp.

Sitting up straighter, she looked him in the eye. "Thank you for bringing us home tonight. And thank you for what you said to Lucca," she offered with absolute sincerity.

"I also owe you a massive apology for St. Jude’s Island. I dragged your name through the mud."

Lucca had deliberately brought up that incident to humiliate her, but the real collateral damage had been Jarrod. The sheer guilt of it gnawed at her.

"Are you still hopelessly hung up on Logan?" Jarrod asked abruptly.

Stella stared at his utterly stoic expression, struggling to decipher the motive behind the question. Still, she shook her head firmly. "I told you before. I'm completely over him."

"If that's true, then what I said out there was merely a statement of fact. There's no need to thank me."

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