Leap OF Fate novel Chapter 69

Justin did not know how long he slumped on his office floor. His fist bled from punching the wall. His hands held his temples and his usually tidy hair fell on his face like curtains. He cried uncontrollably. His chest rose and fell as his breathing became laborious; his shoulders shook from his cries. He could not recall the last time he wept this way.

He picked up his phone and dialed her number, and just like his previous attempts, an electronic voice told him that the number was no longer in service. He lost her. No, he will not accept it. Didn’t she say she loved him? She will not leave him.

The loud ringing of his phone cut off his ramblings. With trembling hands, he looked at the display, but his heart sank when he saw Dylan’s name instead of hers.

“Hey,” he choked.

“Where are you?” Dylan said sounding somber, unlike his usual self.

“Office.”

“Come up to the bar, will you?”

Dylan sat alone drinking in the bar. His shoulder slumped. Justin sat beside him and nodded to the bartender. After a while, a glass of scotch was in front of him. He drank it in a single gulp.

“She broke up with me,” Dylan said after finishing the golden liquid in his glass. He gave Justin a sideway look.

“Mary? Why?” Justin sounded surprised. What a turn of events. He and his best friend fell in love almost at the same time and now got dumped almost at the same time too. No, he did not get dumped, he dumped her. And that’s the biggest mistake of his life.

“She said she wanted to focus on her business and did not want to be in a relationship.” Dylan sneered and shook his head before gulping down another glass. “Can you believe that bullshit?”

Justin looked at Dylan. In the years that they’ve been friends, this was the first time he saw Dylan devastated.

“You look like shit, what happened to you?” Dylan inquired after he scanned his face.

It’s his turn to gulp down his drink. He stared blankly in front of him before he narrated what happened, beginning from when Serene waited for him in his office.

“That’s just stupid, Man.” Dylan looked at him, disappointment written in his face. “Serene loved you like crazy. How could you even think that she got a thing for your brother-in-law?” He said, shaking his head.

Justin said nothing and took another swig of his drink.

“Did you call her? Ask her back.”

“I did, but her number’s already unavailable.”

Dylan froze from his answer and stared at Justin. He looked as if an idea sparked from his brain.

“Do you know where Serene is now?”

“No. She’s probably in Coast City.”

Dylan stroked his chin, his brows furrowed and contemplated.

“Do you think Mary broke up with me to hide Serene?”

“What?”