Brandon’s P.O.V I was sitting in my kitchen sipping on a black coffee, with a splitting headache due to drinking too much last night and feeling sorry for myself. I drank more than planned last night after Nova left. I knew no matter how much she denies it, her seeing me taking that woman’s number got to her, and I understand why it would. Yes, this is only “pretend” but she was still my date, and we had still been having s*x. It was not fair for me to do that to her, especially after everything she has done for me. I knew I had to see her and try to make it up to her. The phone number I got? I threw it in the bin. I found myself not wanting it. If that were a couple of weeks of ago I would have kept it, probably called her by now but now things were different. I was not 100% sure why a