31. Playing Cupid

I was a fool. I knew. My level of foolishness was at the highest level.

I mean who in their right mind would go with someone knowing you will be hurt in the end? The fool was me.

"So…am I allowed to go with you?"

I had no idea how I gathered the courage to ask him that imagining the thought of seeing the two of them while laughing was like a stab in my chest.

“I…don't think that’s a good idea, Keira.”

Hope bloomed in my chest.

Was he considering my feelings now? What if there was a chance between us? That I did not have to unlove him? That I will be free from loving him?

"W-why? Is that because—"

"Keira," he muttered instead.

Tell me you don't want to hurt me. That you also value my feelings and this fake marriage.

Or maybe…

“Why? Are you scared Zoe will get ideas?”

Alpha Lennox exhaled. “I am scared of her reaction.”

You know the feeling that you finally hoped that something good will happen, but then reality slapped you hard? That was what I felt right now.

I clenched my fist.