Chapter 5

A week after I got out of the hospital, I started getting calls and messages from some of my college friends.

I hadn't reached out to any of them. So it was obvious James must've told them.

I had no clue how James explained his situation with Emily to them.

But whenever we talked about the past, everyone would bring him up and try to talk me into getting back together with him.

Everyone except one person. "I always knew you'd break up with him," he said. "You'd never put up with something like that."

That was Ethan Grant. Back…