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Chapter 136

My phone clattered to the floor. I froze, not daring to breathe until he blinked through his confusion into recognition.

He jerked his hand away from me, scrambling back wide-eyed.

Harsh breaths stuttering out of me, I grabbed my phone and fled. I didn't stop running until I'd locked my bedroom door, sliding down the wall to sit with my knees drawn into my chest. Shaking, I touched my fingertips to my throat. The tiny drops of blood that came away were a shocking red.

Lizzo's "Good As Hell" rang out from my phone, jarring in the silence. I'd assigned that ringtone to Rohan as a reminder to myself to be hair flip girl with razors underneath. Well, my metaphorical razors had just met his very real blades and I wasn't sure hair flip girl was up to the task of speaking to him.

My hand hovered over my phone, my decision on whether to answer up in the air until the last note.

"I'm so sorry." Rohan's voice was bleak. "I'd never-I wouldn't hurt you."