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But she didn’t say a thing. I turned toward the man called Dennis, maybe he could help me.

Tears streamed down my face as I linked my fingers together “Please, maybe you can help me. Please, I love him so much. I can talk to Mr. White. Please, they are very talented, they will do great things. Don’t separate us please.” I croaked through my sobs.

Dennis swallowed but didn’t say a thing while he kept glancing at White.

I heard a shrill laugh and turned toward her. She shook her head in amusement “Do you think I don’t know that you tried to meet Daddy? You are really a foolish little girl. Daddy only listens to what I say anyway.” She rolled her eyes as she bent over.

I felt White’s cold finger touch my chin as she tilted my head up. “You look pathetic, begging at my feet like this. Do you think all your crying would move me? Would make me change my mind? It only makes me pity you.” She laughed. “In fact, the only thing it does is make me want to see you beg more.” Her eyes shone in glee at my demise.

It dawned on me that no amount of begging was going to change her mind. She was a psychopath who got off on my pain and sadness. My fingers crept up to my neck and I clutched the ‘J’ that will forever be on my neck. It gave me strength for what I had to do next.

I let an icy feeling settle over me as I numbed the pain that was shattering my soul.

I wiped away my tears as I stood up. I had to do this. For him, and only for him.

I nodded as I got up from the floor. “I will do this, but only if you agree to what I say.”

“You are funny if you think you hold the power to bargain with me,” White said, rolling her eyes.

“Yes, I do. You actually need me more than I need you,” I replied in a cold voice that made her arch one of her eyebrows. “You need me to leave him. But make no mistake, Jay will walk out the minute I tell him everything. You are the pathetic one who is holding his dreams over my head and asking me to prove my love for him in the worst possible way. So yes, you will listen to what I have to say.”

Her eyes flashed, but she knew it was the truth. “Very well then, go ahead.”

“You will draw up a new deal, an actual one. The one where they get to make albums, promotions, press, tour everything, and you will also give Jay full creative control. After six months on January twenty-third,their first album has to be released. And let me stay with him for that six months and then I will leave him forever.”

“Six months? I want you to leave him now!”

“He won’t let me leave. You think you know him, but you don’t. Jay just won’t let me walk away. I need six month’s time before I leave him for good. You have my word.” I needed at least six months to say goodbye to my baby and make sure White kept her end of the deal. I still haven’t decided how I was going to leave him though. The thought of it broke my heart.

“Your words mean shit to me, Evy. But it makes sense and six months actually is perfect. It will give you enough time to break his heart so he will never think of you again. Don’t worry, I will tell you exactly what to do. You will sign it on paper that you will no longer contact him after that, and I will agree to everything else.”

I nodded in pain. “All right. You will sign the deal with them now, and there better be no loopholes in it, because then I will tell him everything. And you very well know who Jay will choose in the end.”

Her eyes flashed with a bit of panic before she masked them with a cold stare. “Very well, Dennis will draw up the papers, and you will sign them before you leave.” White walked over to her desk and tore off a check, flicking it my way. “For your troubles.” She smiled.

I gave her a stone-cold glare. “My last breath would leave my body and even then, I won’t take a penny from you, White.”

She shrugged as she gave me a sly grin. “Well, then I got the greater end of the deal. I will text you what you need to do. And don’t even think of denying my requests or playing games with me because there will be consequences. I am sure you have already seen what I am capable of.”

I felt nothing as I walked out of that wretched house after signing those damn papers. It felt like I had just signed my own death sentence. Which was what it probably was. Because it would be like dying to leave Jay. But I had to. It was going to be the most difficult thing I had ever done in my entire life. But I had six months left to say goodbye to him. And I wanted to savor every moment we had together.

Funny that White thinks she could have him after I left—she may have him or try to, but what she doesn’t know is that he would never love her. No matter how much of an angel she played to be in his eyes, I knew in my bones that his eyes would never shine for her or any other girl as they did for me. Jay may despise me in the end for all this, but he would only ever love me in this lifetime.

CHAPTER 21

“Sweetheart, what’s wrong?”

I sighed—my baby was back home. Not home, more like a prison that I called home. I hated this house, and I hated this city and all the pain it had brought me.

It was pretty late at night, and by the time I got here from White’s glass house, the whole gang got called in for an emergency meeting at the label, and I clearly knew why.

I had been holed up in my room ever since. The last thing she told me before I left was still ringing in my mind.I can’t wait tomake him hate you,she said in glee.And I wanted to punch her in the face but what power did I have? I had succumbed to a weak being who had no choice but to let her toy with me like I was her very own plaything. I breathed as I reminded myself that it was all for Jay. And I would do anything for Jay.

At least she was keeping her end of the deal, I thought as I tried to suppress the urge to retaliate to the universe that there never should have been a deal to start with. Especially one that landed my entire life in jeopardy.

I gave a small smile to Jay as he rushed to my side.

“Sweetheart, what’s wrong? Were you crying?” Jay traced a finger down my cheek with a concerned look on his face.