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“Just like that, huh? I’ve been gone a day, and you are with him.”

Her voice broke as she cried, and I held my head in my hands.

“Come back, Cal,” she begged, sobbing. “I just needed someone to talk to—”

“Yeah? You’ve gotfriends, Gretchen. You’ve gotme,” I growled as I noticed my flight being announced over the speaker. “I have to go,” I hung up, making my way to the departure gate.

I was in two minds: whether to drown my sorrows at a bar or go back to that shitty town and blast my cousin’s fucking head off.

The latter idea appealed more than whiskey, so I boarded the plane. As I jammed my seatbelt on, a slender brunette slid into the seat beside me, her eyes running over me appreciatively.

“Wow, looks like I won the seat lottery,” she smirked, her tongue sliding over her full lips as I studied her.

She didn’t turn me on like Gretchen did, and that annoyed me even more. I considered fucking her in the tiny toilet just to destroy every aspect of my relationship, but I decided against it.

“Lady, with all due respect, I don’t wanna hear any more noise from your mouth,” I snapped as she narrowed her eyes at me, her mouth forming a perfect ‘O’.

Fucking women.

Part Two: Chapter Twenty-One

GRETCHEN

I’m going to kill Luke.

I called an Uber and went straight to his house, banging on the door.

I didn’t care if his parents were in or not; I wanted to kill that piece of shit.

He opened the door lazily, his eyes lighting up when he saw me. I pushed him hard in the chest, causing him to fall back slightly as his expression changed to that of surprise.

“What the fuck?” he grunted as I pushed him again, rage brimming in my veins so much I was shaking. Tears fell down my face as I pointed at him, my finger close to his face.

“Youfuckingbastard. You told Cal,” I spat, as he folded his arms in front of him. “You made me a promise, Luke.”

“Yes, I told Cal. Because I’m worried about you,” his face softened as he gazed at me.

“Worriedabout me? If you are so worried about me, you wouldn’t have told Cal I had been with you when he had been out of town for one day!” I screeched, aware I sounded like a crazy person.

I wanted to punch the smirk from his face as he rubbed his neck.

“Babe—”

“Don’tfucking call me babe,” I snapped.

“Okay,Gretchen, you need to understand something. I care about you a lot. It’shisfault that you were in that situation. He deserves to be fuckingtold,”he stepped closer to me as I moved backward, holding up my hand in a way of warning him not to come any closer.

“You also need to ask yourself why you were with me the day after he left town.”

I blinked, his words hitting me hard.

He thought I was in love with him still.

This was too much; the man was insane.

His blue eyes burned into mine as I struggled to speak, suddenly very aware that whatever I said made no difference, he wouldn’t listen.

“I’m leaving,” I turned on my heel and strode towards the door as he swiftly grabbed me, pressing me against the door. He searched my eyes briefly, before he pressed his mouth to mine. He drove his tongue into my mouth as I tried to shove him away, adrenaline giving me strength I didn’t know I had.