Total pages in book: 27
Estimated words: 25612 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 128(@200wpm)___ 102(@250wpm)___ 85(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 25612 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 128(@200wpm)___ 102(@250wpm)___ 85(@300wpm)
“Yeah, but you’re not that guy,” my brother says.
“Yeah, but she’s afraid he is,” Sammie says. She’s been through that with my brother, so she understands more than anyone else.
“We’ll stop by in the morning before she goes to work,” Doc says.
I shake my head vehemently, pressing my hands on the back of his seat. “No, I can’t wait. The more she sits there thinking about it, the more she’s going to be upset. It has to be tonight.”
“It’s like twelve thirty. By the time we get there, it will be almost two,” Danny reminds me.
“Fuck. What if she won’t see me?”
“We’ll make her see you,” Sophia says, smiling at me and taking my hand.
“I can’t just burst into her apartment after what that asshole did.”
“I’ll make her see me,” Sammie insists.
“Will you?”
“Yes.”
Doc was right; with a light snow, it’s almost two by the time we get to Steeleville. We enter the building quietly, and the tension rushes up my spine.
“Sammie, are you ready?” Doc asks.
“Yep.” She knocks lightly and I want to lose my cool, but I remain calm. After everything that has happened, I can’t go in there like a raging bull.
Chapter Ten
Tina
There are no words for the anger I feel toward myself. He may have tried to play me, but I’m the one who played myself. I talked myself into believing that he could be different, the exception to the rule.
Sitting with my phone in my hand, my thoughts blur into nothingness and I eventually pass out from exhaustion. I’m awoken by the sound of knocking at my door. It’s a light knock, taking me by surprise. Looking at my phone, it’s after two in the morning.
“Knock harder—she’s not going to hear that shit.”
“Oh my God,” I whisper to myself. Is that my boss?
The knocking is louder. “Who is it?”
“It’s Samantha Miller. I need to speak with you. Can I come in?”
I go to the door and open it slightly and she slides inside, closing it quickly behind her. “My brother’s outside waiting.”
“What’s going on? Is everything okay?” I ask, wondering why she’d come here in the middle of the night considering her bother and I were really nothing.
She grabs my shoulders and pulls me into a hug and then steps back to look me in the eyes. “Obviously not. Sweetie, you’ve been crying.”
“It’s nothing.” It’s nothing, I wipe my face with the edge of my tee shirt. I forgot I was in my tiny pajama shorts and tank top, but it’s only her and Dr. Simmons is outside, so it’s fine.
“Don’t lie to me, girl. I’ve been where you are.”
My mouth falls open and I don’t hold back. “And you still married that lying prick?”
Sammie shakes her head. “Danny didn’t lie to me, and Mike didn’t lie to you.”
I roll my eyes at her deluded ass. “I met his fiancée, and she showed me proof.”
“That woman, whoever she is, isn’t Mike’s woman. You are.”
“I’m not anything to him,” I insist.
“Keep lying to yourself, but if you weren’t, you wouldn’t have been crying.”
“Look, if he cared, he’d be here. You don’t need to come here and fix his mistakes. I don’t want to be with a man I have to worry about.” My heart can’t handle the torture that this day has brought. It’s just better to be single than go through this.
“That’s the thing…” Sammie walks to the door and opens it. In walks Mike. “Talk to her. She said that bitch claimed to be your fiancée.”
“Augustina, baby girl. We need to talk.”
“We’ll just head home,” Sammie says. Mike nods, and she walks out the door.
“She approached me as I was about to go into my apartment. She showed me the engagement ring and a picture of you two together.” I slap his chest, tears falling from my face.
He takes them both in his and kisses them. “What the fuck? Stop that. You could hurt yourself. Besides, I sure as hell have never been with her.”
“Not that kind of picture. You had your arm around her, and she’s all up on you.”
He looks like he’s puzzling something out and I’m not sure if he’s working up a lie or trying to understand what I mean. “Were there a lot of other people in the picture?”
“No, it was just the two of you, but it was clearly after a fight.”
“I’m never alone with a female because I don’t trust them, baby girl. I swear, she doctored or cropped that image to make it look legit.” He stared at me with soft, genuine eyes that screamed for understanding. He shakes his head, getting more agitated by the second.
“It’s possible,” I admit.
“There is no way in hell I gave her a ring of any sort. What I want to know is how she found out about you and came over here to stop me from being with you. There are only two people who knew outside of a few Steele Riders and my family.”