Chapter 258 He's After You, So I Have to Make Him Give Up

Whitney turned and saw Caleb. "Hey, Caleb." He had once asked her to call him "Cal", but she'd always thought it sounded too intimate. "Do you have time for coffee?" Caleb paused, then smiled faintly. "Sure, give me a minute." Whitney discussed the remaining details with the construction manager and followed Caleb to a café near Seabourke University. "I heard you're marrying Noel?" Caleb asked once they had ordered and sat down. He looked at her with an earnest gaze, as though hearing it from her was the only way he could believe it. Whitney nodded with a smile. "Yeah, you have to come to the wedding." It wasn't that she didn't notice Caleb's feelings for her, but she just couldn't return them. She didn't want to hurt someone who had always been kind to her. All she could do was avoid any misunderstandings. A flash of disappointment crossed Caleb's eyes, mixed with a subtle reluctance to let go. He looked at Whitney and asked, "If it had been me you met first, would you—" "Here