Chapter 23
Jayden arrived back to Cambridge late.
In part, he engineered it to avoid Ella; he suspected from her text that she’d want to talk about Darren (and the four million reasons Jayden should break up with him, and Jayden was sick of being between the rock and the hard place, so just no, not tonight), and in part it was helped by a signal failure in London that screwed up his connection.
As a result, it was mid-afternoon by the time he slipped into the college, and his room was cold and barren, his sheets still messed from waking up late the Friday morning that they went to Paris. He dropped his bag and fell onto the mattress, staring up at the ceiling morosely. Paris seemed…less stunning, now that he’d been. Now he’d been to Paris and Southampton, that was. Bitterly, he wished h
