She Hired the Poor Scholarship Student to Save Her Grades — Then She Fell for the One Guy She Was Afraid to Love
Chapter 11
The goodbye at the airport was harder than Madison expected.
Ethan held her for a long time.
“I’ll be back.”
“I know.”
“You’ll still be here?”
She smiled.
“That’s not a promise.”
He laughed.
“Good.”
She looked at him.
“What does that mean?”
“It means I don’t want you waiting for me.”
“I don’t want you waiting for me either.”
They kissed.
Then he left.
Madison returned to campus.
Her life suddenly felt quieter.
But something had changed.
She no longer cared what people thought.
She wasn’t the girl who needed the perfect relationship.
She wasn’t the rich girl hiding a poor boyfriend.
She was simply Madison.
And somewhere in Chicago, Ethan was building the future he had dreamed about since leaving his hometown.
They called every night.
Sometimes five minutes.
Sometimes two hours.
Neither pretended distance was easy.
But they stopped treating it like a threat.
