The Invisible Girl's Revenge (Harper) novel Chapter 148

Chapter 148

Harper

The look on Maddox’s face made it clear that something inside him had just snapped and I knew I shouldn’t have said what had come out of my mouth about Grayson and Tiffany.

“I didn’t mean it like that.” My words came rushing out, already reaching for his hand. “I–I’m sorry.”

My fingers barely touched his skin before he pulled away and that rejection was sharp.

As his shoulders rose and fell rapidly, he pushed back his chair and got up so abruptly that the bottom scraped against the floor.

He didn’t even look at me anymore but somewhere far past the horizon with a glare that was meant for me.

At that moment, I just wanted to slap myself.

To him, what I’d said about Tiffany and Grayson must’ve looked like I still cared and hated the fact that Grayson had chosen Tiffany once again. I made it look like I was too emotionally invested and hadn’t fully let it go.

He didn’t even try to hide the fact that it hurt him.

Without saying a word to me, he took a few steps back and I just sat there, my heart pounding as I stared down at my plate like it might save me.

He stormed off and I already began to wonder what I could do to make things right again.

Then, his footsteps got louder and I sensed him in my peripheral vision approaching me once again.

I looked up and was instantly relieved when I confirmed that he was coming back to me. My tight chest even loosened up because I thought he wanted to talk about it.

“We’re going back to the beach house,” he said coldly, unable to look at me.

I frowned as my heart sank. “But…but we were supposed to stay on the yacht for another two hours. We have so much planned and-”

“It doesn’t matter anymore. We’re going back,” he snapped, then turned back around and stormed off again like he couldn’t stand the sight of me.

When we docked, he got off first without looking back. Apart from not offering a hand to me,he also didn’t head towards the house. Instead, he walked away from it, disappearing down the path leading to the backyard like he needed to widen the distance between us. He didn’t want to be around me.

I stepped off the yacht alone and wanted to follow him, but I knew better, so I gave him the space he clearly wanted and it already felt like my punishment.

The mansion felt too quiet when I went inside and a few hours passed with no word from him.

I sat on the edge of the bed, then the couch, then the balcony. I even checked my phone several times and found nothing from him.

When I couldn’t take it anymore, I called him but each time, there was no answer. I could imagine him seeing my calls and just not wanting to pick up.

Then came a knock on my bedroom door and my heart skipped to beat. I even held my breath, hoping it was him, but when I opened the door, it was just the butler. I felt so dumb for even thinking that Maddox would need to do something like that for me to open the door.

“Good evening, Miss Harper,” he said gently. “I just received a call from Mr. Aldridge”

I tightened the grip on the door knob. “What did he say?”

“He said that you should start packing.”

“Anything else?”

“No. That’s all.”

I forced a painful smile. “Thank you.”

After he left, I closed the door and just stood there for a while. The fact that he’d called the butler instead of me, because he still didn’t want to talk to me, hurt more than I expected.

I dropped myself hard onto the bed, staring at my small bag with a blurry vision. I had to look up at the ceiling to hold back my tears. I hated the way things were between us.

When I finished packing, I carried my bag to the living room and sat down to wait.

The TV was on, but I could barely pay attention. I thought scrolling and talking to my friends in our group chat would make me feel better, but it didn’t. The topic was how Grayson and Tiffany were still together but I barely added to the conversation. It was the main reason I was in that position with Maddox.

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