Chapter 5
“Noah?”
I blurted out his name in confusion. Only then did I remember that in my previous life, he had been my neighbor, living right next door to the house Adrian and I shared.
Adrian was hardly ever home, so whenever something went wrong in the house, Noah was the one who helped me.
Adrian found out a few times and, for no reason at all, got furious with me over it.
But if it hadn’t been for Noah, I would have stumbled through power outages in the dark and ended up covered in bruises. I would have been drenched head to toe by a broken faucet. I would have broken down sobbing when Adrian refused to answer my calls.
And it was Noah, too, who spent that entire month desperately calling and searching for me after I was locked away in the psychiatric hospital
He tilted his head slightly. “Don’t be scared. I’m here.”
Don’t be scared. I’m here.
Whenever he came over to fix the electricity or repair the faucet, he always said that.
My eyes stung instantly. In my previous life, he had never once
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mentioned that we had been college classmates.
“How are you here?” I asked softly.
Before Noah could answer, Adrian looked past him and shot me an irritated glance. “Tessa. Come here.”
I stepped behind Noah. “You’re insane.”
“Tessa! I’m your fiancé.”
“I don’t like you anymore, and I’m not marrying you anymore. You’re
Chloe’s fi–an–cé now!”
When I refused to come out, he reached over to grab me, but Noah blocked him. “Laying hands on a woman? Do you call yourself a
man?”
“Mind your own business. Don’t make me get rough with you.”
“Go ahead and try.” Noah didn’t budge. He stood in front of me like a
wall.
By then, a crowd had already gathered to watch the spectacle, and the thing I hated most was becoming the center of attention.
So I forced an end to the farce. “Adrian, about your family’s investment–you can tell your father to talk to mine. I’ll tell my father too that I don’t like you anymore, and there’s no need to keep using the investment to tie you down. So now are you satisfied? Can you leave?”
I grabbed Noah’s hand, turned, and walked away,
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“Tessa!”
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He was still calling my name behind me. It didn’t matter; I wasn’t going to look back.
