All Chapters of One Last Chase: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Charleigh shoved the remaining cake into her mouth, stood up, and placed the empty mug in the sink. She walked away, climbed upstairs, and left Bryce thinking in his kitchen.When she came back, she was already wearing her clothes from yesterday. “Leaving already?” She found Bryce at the end of the stairs, resting his arm over the newel post. “I have to get ready for my date.”“Are you still staying at the Inn?”“Yes.” She snaked her arms around his thick neck and stared at his blue eyes—they were mesmerizing that she could spend several hours just glancing at his gorgeous face, and she wouldn’t get bored.“Can I at least send you there?”“I have my car.”His thick brows squished together. “Wait a minute. You drove all the way here?”“For you, yeah. I did.” That got her a deep and passionate kiss making her heart pump faster. “I’ll do it over again if I got to have you like last night.”“Jesus, Charleigh. Do you have any idea how much you make me happy?” he said between hard breaths

Instantly, he stilled to the voice just thundered in the entire floor. Fuck! Everyone around the emergency room yelped and gasped in shock. Then it went silent, except for the constant ear-splitting beeps and alarms of the machines, he didn’t realize it had been there before.Bryce gathered all his strength to stand up and face the demon from his nightmare. “W-with the doc—”Before he could finish his words, Dax’s fist connected with his jaw. Bryce’s head snapped to the left he thought his world spun around him. He felt his ass hitting the floor with a thud. Everyone let out another gasp. The pain from the punch wasn’t even close to the pain he felt for Clary.“Give me a single fucking reason not to take her away from you, Chase!”He couldn’t answer. All he could do was stare in horror at Dax.“Funny and pathetic. You can’t even open your mouth, can you now, huh, Chase? Because the moment you let her out of your sight, you lost that fucking right.”“It was—” Bryce could taste his own

It was nothing but sex.You were a huge distraction. This has to end now. I don’t need you.She hated crying. For her, it was a sign of weakness. Yet, here she was. It was out of her control. She wiped the tears on her face, but they kept falling from her eyes as those words continued echoing in her mind. She ran away from the emergency room with only one goal—to be far away from this place as quickly as possible, but it didn’t go as she planned when she heard her name calling behind her.She halted as if her feet were glued to the ground while her brain was screaming at her not to stop.“Charleigh!” the old man called her name again. She knew it was Bryce’s grandpa Matthew who carpooled with her to the hospital. With respect to the old man, she squeezed her eyes shut before she turned around. Grandpa Matthew’s face twisted with sadness. He sighed deeply and shook his head. “Don’t listen to him. He is confused and afflicted. Give him a little time to pull himself back together. S

Charleigh arrived back at her apartment pretty late, and she was exhausted. Her stomach kept grumbling, but she didn’t even have the strength to heat the meal in her fridge. She lost her appetite when she saw the desk in her small office where she let herself get engrossed to finish the plan she did less than forty-eight hours ago. Now, she wasn’t expecting Bryce would even take a look at it. Her effort had gone to waste. Just like the feelings she invested in the wrong man.She curled up in her bed alone. Last night she was busy moaning, writhing, and screaming as she and Bryce had lost in their own world. Right now, she felt nothing but heartache, muscle pain, and a headache, her constant reminders that what happened between them was real and over.Her phone suddenly vibrated. Her hope spiked that maybe, it was Bryce ready to apologize, but to her disappointment, it wasn’t him. Her brows furrowed to see her brother’s name flashing on the screen of her phone.“Wow!” She threw her ha

Bryce felt something heavy inside his chest that he couldn’t shake away. Never a moment did the image of Charleigh smiling, laughing, moaning beneath him didn’t visit his mind. The caramel-colored eye brunette never concealed what she truly felt for him, even up to the last moment she looked into his eyes before she dashed out of the emergency. That was one of many things he loved about Charleigh.Yeah, he loved Charleigh. He never doubted that.A tremor of fear ran down his spine. After Bryce screwed it up, she probably moved on, and someone as beautiful and smart as Charleigh would never wait and give another chance to someone like him. She deserved better. Because he was an ass, he was paying the price.When they were gone to the room, Bryce sank to the couch. He instantly remembered how they met—it was through his dog. He petted its fluffiest fur, and it started to whine at him. He couldn’t believe he blamed Lotus for his stupidity.“Hey buddy, do you think she hates me?” he asked