[This chapter is dedicated to Martika_Taylor. Thank you for picking up this story and for leaving comments.]
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'A diamond ring, huh!?' She walked beside June, fuming. Noah truly likes giving diamond rings, she thought to herself. And he's quite generous. A girl he dated for a weekend got a diamond ring? She tasted something coppery inside in her tongue. Her anger with the idea of Noah buying a diamond room for a girl he slept with over the weekend opened a sore spot in her heart that she didn't realize that she already bit the inside of her cheek. She only realized it when she tasted the blood.
"I looked away for a minute and now you're ready to murder someone?" Markus was smiling broadly and Jess felt like she also wanted to smack the back of his head. She doesn't understand the annoyance she's feeling. She didn't give much thought to the fact of her anger.