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Long Road Ahead

Author: Serena Harry
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56
Zach sat down in his car outside Chloe’s house, thinking about how to say what he wanted to say.

It wasn’t going to be easy, not after the way he had treated her when she came over to his house. He was sure she had swallowed her pride to come to him but what had he done? He had just shoved her away with the words of his mouth and action of his words.

He should have been more open about the way he felt a long time ago, and not now when all she wanted to do was kill him at sight, and trustfully, he deserved that.

Sighing, he rubbed his face with his hand, trying not to do push his hair back because it will make it all messy.

Mustering the courage to get out of the car after about half an hour he had been parked out front, he opened the car and walked to the door of the house.

Once, then twice, he knocked on the door and took a step back to wait for the door to be open, hoping she was the one that would open the door.

He felt that, if she was to reject him on the spot, then his humi
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