Page 110 of Muse (Fighting Fate)

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You have no idea how sexy you look right now. I want you in those bikinis tonight. I’ll be there at 9. Leave your balcony door unlocked.

Even though the text was obviously sex related, it made me smile a little. He’d been watching me at the beach. He thought I was sexy.

Are you okay?

I’m fine

You didn’t look fine…

Now that confused me. I really wanted to know what happened.

Can I ring you?

OK

I was growing frustrated with the gaps in the conversations. Why c

ouldn’t we have communicated more via text?

I should warn you. Aiden knows about us.

What? How?!

Sorry. That probably looked a lot worse than it should’ve. What I should’ve said is: Aiden knows we like each other.

Was he mad?

Maybe a little, but it’s not his fault. He’s worried about you. Said he’d beat the shit out of me if I ever hurt you ;)

OMG pls tell me you’re joking...

Uh....

I frowned at that last one. It kind of matched up with what Aiden and Kaeli had said, but it was still obvious no one really knew what was going on between us. I thought about how sad Jace had seemed at the hospital. If it’d just been about sex, would he have been so upset? All of it just confused me even more.

I closed my messages down and opened my photos. As soon as it opened, I found myself staring at a picture of Jace and me together. It looked like Jace was holding my phone to take the picture. I was wearing a really sexy red dress, which made me blush just looking at it, and Jace was wearing a pair of jeans with a white button down shirt. He looked hot.

I stared at the picture for a long time, trying to see the girl in the picture as actually being me. It was almost impossible. I flicked to the next picture, but there were no more of the two of us together.

Putting my phone into sleep mode, I curled up on my bed and closed my eyes. My head was a swirling mess. I didn’t know how any of that fit in with what I’d imagined. It didn’t make any sense. Sighing, I forced myself to push it all out of my mind and go to sleep.

My dreams were filled with Jace. It was just picture after picture, scene after scene, of just him with me, smiling, laughing, caring for me, gentle, and loving. The warmth of it all flooded me. It roused my soul from its confused state and set it on fire.

I woke crying. I was a mess. Everything was rushing back to me at the speed of light. I could remember it all, and burning brightest, is the memory of him gazing into my eyes and telling me he loved me.

I cried so hard I could hardly breathe. All I could think about was how he’d looked in the hospital, how devastated he’d seemed. I’d caused him so much pain. The memory of it in his eyes was like a knife plunged straight into my heart. I couldn’t believe what I’d done to him.

Without another thought, I picked up my phone and dialed.

Chapter 53

Jace

I woke to the sound of my phone ringing. Why the fuck hadn’t I turned it off? I’d had Aiden and the guys driving me fucking crazy all god damned afternoon, trying to get me to go to some fucking party.

They’d all insisted it’d take my mind off Mia, but I didn’t want my fucking mind off her. She was all that fucking mattered. As far as I was concerned, the minute I took my mind off her, I’d given up, and that was never fucking happening.

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