Chapter Fifty Four

JADE'S POV

After what happened with Ches today, I'm finding it most difficult to settle down and catch any form of sleep.

The guilt of staying crossed with her and not noticing her absence early enough is still stuck to me like a second skin, plaguing my mind.

And there's nothing that I've done this night that's helped.

Not even going into Caden's room to apologize for being so hard on him and saying the thoughtless, hurtful thing that I had, had done the trick.

The only excuse I have for acting the way I did with him earlier is that I had been hurting myself and had been looking to bite......... and he'd just been there.

I found him asleep though, sprawled in the middle of his bed and out like a light, lost to the hoarding hands of oblivion, his muddy shoes still on.

And he'd looked so fucking exhausted that I didnt have it in me to wake him up just to listen to the things I had to say, so I just helped him get rid of the shoes instead, along with his shorts before covering him up.

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