Painting My Life Without You

From the back cover

When a photo of Jude and Valerie in each other's arms spreads across the campus forum, everyone treats it as inevitable. Jude laughs it off, telling Megan she is the only one for him, and in public he never hides her, introducing her as his girlfriend and future wife. Yet at the senior gala, when a tray of scalding soup flies, he lunges to pull Valerie from harm, his hand burning while his eyes stay fixed on hers.

Megan has loved Jude for ten years, ever since freshman year, when he and Valerie first went viral as the golden pair of the finance department. Everyone whispers that a man like Jude will not stay with someone as ordinary as her for long. Valerie, once her close friend, now works beside him, and the silence between the three of them grows heavier.

One night, after Valerie calls Megan to collect a drunk Jude, Megan finds him slumped against Valerie's shoulder while his colleagues admit they thought the two were a couple. The question Megan cannot stop asking is simple: how did Jude know exactly where Valerie's apartment was?