CHAPTER 274
Author: Chessman
last update2025-05-26 23:27:15

Summer stood with her arms folded tightly across her chest, her eyes blazing from the fire of disappointment that hadn’t yet cooled. Her heart still felt like it had been dragged across broken glass—by the betrayal, the letdown, and now the weight of responsibility that refused to let her breathe.

Jason watched her quietly. He wasn’t the kind to talk just to fill space, but now, the way she was spiraling… he knew if he didn’t step in, she would drown in her own thoughts.

So he stepped forward.

“Well,” he said evenly, his voice gentle but edged with firmness, “I honestly don’t understand where you’re driving at anymore.”

Summer blinked at him, caught off guard by the calm in his tone.

Jason continued, “The deal has already been done, hasn’t it?”

She stared, her mouth slightly open.

“It’s been signed, closed, and put behind us,” he said. “So now that it’s done—why not let it go?”

His voice didn’t rise, but the words had weight.

“Why not stop going in circles about what didn’t work and f
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