Chapter Forty-Eight

Alex's POV

It's been a week since the prom, after Asher took me home that night, he fixed the door and didn't leave till the next day, said he didn't want me to be alone. Since then we'd been having nightly rendezvous, sometimes I'd get ambiguous messages with just a place and sometimes he'd come pick me up, I also figured out that the number that texted me wanting to talk (refer to chapter forty-five) was his. He later told me that he had found out about Cole cheating and wanted to tell me but I never got back to him, and literally thirty minutes later, I found out.

I felt my eyelids getting heavier and heavier as I tried to blink back my fatigue, suddenly, my phone vibrated on the cupboard next to my bed and the tiredness disappeared. I swiped my phone off the table and my entire body filled with excitement as the screen lit up with Asher's name, it vibrated again and my smile faded. What does he want?

Cole: I don't know if you're awake right now but I just