5
These past few days, I had been running around nonstop, trying to get my study abroad paperwork in order.
I was walking down the street, my eyes glued to my phone as I replied to a message from my department head.
So I walked right into someone.
I rubbed my forehead, about to apologize.
A soft chuckle came from in front of me.
“Well, if it isn’t Daniel’s little childhood sweetheart.”
“What a coincidence, running into our ‘Daniel‘ again, huh?”
Hooked up and met Daniel’s cold, wary gaze
Chapter 1
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“What a coincidence, running into our ‘Daniel‘ again, huh?”
I looked up and met Daniel’s cold, wary gaze.
He frowned.
His hand, hanging at his side, clenched into a fist.
He studied me for a long moment. Besides the resistance and disgust in his eyes, there seemed to be a flicker of something else, something complex and unreadab-
- le.
His tone was stiff.
“What are you doing here?”
My heart sank.
I opened my mouth, but the name “Daniel” wouldn’t come out.
The person next to him hadn’t noticed the change in atmosphere.
“What do you mean, coincidence? The way Aria clings to Daniel, she’s probably got a GPS tracker on him. Wherever we go, she follows.”
Everyone else took it as a joke.
But I felt like I was sitting on pins and needles.
The phone in my hand suddenly felt like a hot potato.
I nearly threw it away.
Because it really did have a tracking system linked to Daniel.
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Ever since the female lead appeared in his life, they had become partners, walking side–by–side, sharing a world I could never enter.
It was like a barrier that shut me out.
My anxiety grew stronger and stronger.
Driven by a twisted possessiveness, I had installed a tracking app on his phone.
I turned every instance of surveillance into a “coincidence.”
I stayed by his side, keeping him within my line of sight, a prisoner of my gaze.
I even reveled in the teasing from those around me.
I deliberately created false intimacy in front of the female lead.
It wasn’t just Daniel who was suffocating. I was too.
“But how come you didn’t come to watch our competition this time, Aria? Did you two have a fight? You guys
The group’s eyes, still clueless, continued to drift suggestively between me and Daniel.
It was more than just a fight…
It was practically attempted murder.
I watched as Daniel’s face grew darker and darker.
I silently cursed my luck.
My eyes instinctively flickered to the female lead.
Hannah was as her name suggested: cool and captivating.
She heard the teasing, but her expression didn’t change.
She even looked at me with a hint of amusement.
As expected of the female lead. So calm and composed.
She couldn’t be bothered to stoop to my level.
But outside of the script, I, Aria Astor, was just a coward.
Just as I was wringing my hands, trying to figure out how to escape, a loud, arrogant voice suddenly cut through the air.
“Where’s Hannah?”
