Chapter Sixty Four

MATT'S POV

Breakfast came around rather quickly after that and this time when she turns up to join us, she looks almost like a different person.

Her hair is combed and neatly pulled into a bun, her body tucked into a fitted denim and a size too big top, her eyes less red and puffy.

But it's not any of that that made the pronounced difference in her now, no it's the cold, distant look in her eyes and the lack of her usual cheer and brightness that did the trick.

She looks withdrawn and nothing like the Jade I'd been with just last night, she acted nothing like the carefree, spontaneous girl daring to test the waters.

Everything about her now seems so precise and calculated with no room for fun or the brightness I know her with.

I know talking about Lizzy and the possibility of her being behind her torment is responsible for this damper and though I'm happy that she finally has a name and a face to let her pent up emotions out on, I wish Caden and Ches had waited a little bit longer for