After I said that, it felt like a heavy weight had been lifted off my chest.

I didn’t look at anyone at first, then my eyes moved to him like a magnet. Jeremy. He was looking at me now, his expression brightening with the slightest hint that I would have missed if I didn’t look well.

“Why is that?” John asked, but before I could speak, Zayne beat me to it. "How do you expect her to pick me where Jeremy is involved? No one ever does."

Zayne said with a tone filled with pain, his eyes ...