73. Return Gift

VIOLET

“You found her.”

“I did.” Alex replied, his green gaze fixed on the girl he has been unable to keep his eyes off.

I followed his gaze to look at Scarlett, the girl he was searching for and finally found. She was sitting sandwiched between Kiara and Bree as they conversed. “I never thought that you’d fall in love.”

“It’s not—” I stared at him, my eyes daring him to deny me. He raked his fingers through his dark hair in a rare move of vulnerability. “You can deny it all you want but all of us already know how much you love her.” I sighed, looked at where Brandon and Elle were engrossed into each other and I doubted they cared about anything happening around them in the moment. I said, “It’s scary. But you can’t run away from it.”

He scoffed. “You are one to talk. Cole and you have been doing just fine.” The ache I had been trying to ignore by letting myself get lost in the happiness of all the couples surrounding me returned with a vengeance. He continued, like the cold hearted