Invisible To Her Bully (Jessa and Noah) novel Chapter 106

I don’t even remember walking up to my room.

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One second, Mom was tearing into me in the living room, and the next, I was standing here staring at the floor like it might give me answers.

Her words kept replaying in my head, over and over.

You didn’t even notice what was happening to your own sister.

She wasn’t wrong.

But the way she’d said it like I’d failed some test I didn’t even know I was taking – it made something in

me snap.

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I slammed my fist into the wall. The thud rattled the picture frames.

“Jackson!” Mom’s voice echoed from downstairs. “Hey–don’t start breaking things!”

Too late.

I yanked open my door and stomped down the hall, the anger boiling up fast, messy, and unfiltered.

She was still in the living room, her scrubs wrinkled, face pale and tired.

Jessa sat on the couch, her eyes red but dry now. She looked small – smaller than I’d ever seen her.

“Don’t look at me like that,” I snapped before she could even say anything. “Like I’m the bad guy.”

“Jackson-” Mom started, but I cut her off.

“No. You want to talk about what I didn’t do for her? Fine. Let’s talk about what you didn’t do for me.”

Her brows shot up. “Excuse me?”

I took a step forward, heart pounding. “You think it’s been easy being the only guy in this house? Because it hasn’t. I don’t even know how to be a guy half the time. You know who taught me to shave? Not you.”

She looked stunned. “What-”

“It was Noah’s dad,” I said, my voice breaking somewhere between fury and something else I didn’t want to name. “Because I didn’t have anyone else. No dad to talk to. No one to tell me how to not screw things up. Just me, trying to figure it out on my own.”

Mom’s mouth opened, but nothing came out.

“Do you have any idea how that feels?” I kept going. “To grow up in a house where nobody gets what you’re

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Chapter 106

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going through? Where you’re supposed to just keep it together because you’re the man of the house now?”

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