Chapter 229 Talk

(Ruby)

I kept hyping myself up the entire way to the apartment so that I wouldn’t chicken out when it came time to talk to Jack.

I didn’t want to cower away from any kind of conversation because this was Jack, the one whom I shared everything with.

These doubts had been swimming in my head for more than a week now and my inability to share them was causing the distance between us to grow even more.

I wanted to hold onto him tighter but if we keep ignoring the elephant in the room, how would I be able to do that?

When I finally reached the apartment, it was quiet though I knew he must be home because he had canceled the plan to hang out.

When I entered the living room and rounded the couch, I saw Jack’s prone body on the sofa. It looked like he slept right after he came back from the office. He was still wearing the clothes he had left the house in even though the first thing he did after coming back from the office was to change his clothes.

I smiled slightly and walked over to him. J