#Chapter 137: He Misses You

At once, a variety of emotions wash over me. Hurt, yearning, a satisfaction that Miles still cares about me, guilt, trepidation. Among all these feelings, however, confusion reigns supreme. This is what Selena wanted to talk to me about. “I don’t understand,” I admit, because Selena seems to be waiting for me to reply somehow. How am I supposed to reply to Miles’s current fiancé telling me, his ex-fling, that Miles has been sad without me? “He misses you, Esther,” Selena says, infinite patience in her voice. Her reply only makes me more confused. Surely it’s not how it sounds. She must mean, from her perspective, that Miles misses me as a friend and nothing more. “Miles and I decided to go our separate ways…” I carefully say. “He said that you sneaked out in the middle of the night,” Selena says. Oh. Okay. No confusion there. Selena is definitely aware of the nature of Miles and my relationship, then. “Uh…” I try to formulate words, but I’m at a total lost. At