Chapter 199

NOAH My phone kept buzzing with notifications from our group chat, the sound persistent enough to pull me out of my thoughts, so I reached for it and glanced at the screen. It was Daniel who had started it. He had dropped an Instagram link into the chat and tagged everyone, pointing out that Matthew and Jennifer had gotten back together. Not long after, the rest of the group began reacting. Messages kept coming in one after another—some teasing, some congratulating, others simply joining in on the noise—until the notifications piled up fast enough to make my phone buzz continuously. For a moment, I considered ignoring it, because I normally would not pay attention to things like this, but this time, I still opened the link. Perhaps it was because they were both connected to Olivia—Matthew being her former boss and Jennifer her business partner—that I found myself interested enough to look. Matthew had posted a photo of himself and Jennifer sitting close together, with a glass of lemon