Chapter 18

EMILY

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“I’m genuinely happy for you. You deserve to be happy. And I'm genuinely sorry.”

I couldn’t stop thinking about Gabriel's words. He had called me two days ago after he'd met with Harry. and he had proved me wrong. Apparently, he'd met with Harry to apologize for the misunderstanding that he'd caused and he hoped that the three of us could interact peacefully from that point on.

I felt like he was lying, like this was just another scheme of his but my conversation with Harry had given me much to think about. I called him after the call with Gabriel.

"Hey," I said.

"Hey, he responded, "I'm on my way back to school. I just met with Gabriel."

I liked that he went straight to the point so that I didn't have to. I had been a bit worried that he would have taken it badly if I was the one who brought up Gabriel. I didn't want him to think that I cared.

"Oh, really?" I asked, deciding to act clueless, "how'd it go?"

"Quite well, actually. He apologized for lying about the both of you