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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.”
“So you don’t have anything to do with her?” I question.
“I promise you. Fuck, I didn’t just fly all the way back here when Mitchell called me to say some woman was accosting you.”
His phone rings and he takes it out of his pocket, silencing it before quickly sliding it back inside. Unable to stop my facial expressions, I give off my fears and my insecurities, suspicious of whoever called and why he sent it to voicemail.
“It’s my manager.” He pulls out his phone and opens the call log to show me the caller ID. “He probably wants to know why I took off. The fucking prick sent Mitchell’s calls to voicemail twice while I was training. Even if he says otherwise.”
“Do you think he has something to do with this?”
“So you believe me?”
“I want to believe you. Somehow I got the feeling he didn’t like me. She said it was a secret so she wouldn’t lose her job, but I mean, wouldn’t your whole family know if you were engaged to someone else at least?”
“Yes, Cyber said she’s a ring girl, but Danny and I don’t remember her. We didn’t even notice her from anyone else.”
“Do you think she’s like a stalker?” I ask.
“I doubt it. Cyber checked the cameras when I was on the flight back, and there was no sign of her in Steeleville until she came to confront you and then she left in her car right out of town.”
If he’s telling me the truth, then this will be just one of many groupies, stalkers, and fans trying to get in the way. I’m not strong enough. “Is this what our life is going to be like?”
He cups my chin, lifting my face gently to look at his. “No. First off, I’ve hardly ever had that much attention. Second, I’m retiring.”
“Retiring, why?”
“Well, I was already considering it before, but now that I have you in my life, I can’t imagine being away from you and forcing myself to fight off our natural urges just to win. Hell, I don’t give a fuck if I ever win again because to me, I won the moment you let me kiss you. Can I spend the night?”
