Not Your Bet to Make Chapter 09By Novel7s / August 4, 2026 Not Your Bet to Make Chapter 09Just handled them. Asher surfaced again.Text after text. At first he thought I was throwing a tantrum.His words carried blame. Later-probably after hearing something from my parents—his tone shifted. Worry. Panic.I broke up with him at the graduation dinner. We had nothingbetween us anymore.I didn’t respond to a single message. Calmly sent him to theblacklist.Tiffany didn’t bombard me like the others. A few messages the first day I disappeared. After that, nothing.I remembered freshman year. First time I met her.She transferred like me. From another state. Shy. But brilliant.When I found out she liked the same old movies I did, Iwarmed to her. Shared my snacks. Brought her along to funthings.Asher didn’t like her.His words: he felt like she was there to steal me from him.Made him feel threatened.So whenever they were in the same room, they fought.To keep things peaceful, I rarely put them together.Until three months before graduation. They offered to tutorme together.I was stunned.“You two? Together? I’m afraid you’ll fight.”Tiffany patted her chest. Confident.“Don’t worry. We won’t. We’ve worked it out.”Asher nodded too.atAfter that, they still argued-predictably-but the sharp edge was gone. The hostility. Faded.I even caught something in Tiffany’s eyes when she looked atAsher. Shyness. Interest.Female intuition. Something had happened between them.
