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“That you’d fuck it up quickly. She’s too good for you, Anderson, anyone with eyes can see it.”
Well, that was certainly true.
“Whatever. If you see her, call me.” I strode away.
“Nah, I don’t think I will,” Chase called back. “I might just offer her an upgrade instead.”
I whirled around and was on him in seconds. “What the fuck did you say?”
“I said that you don’t deserve a sweet, good little girl like Eve Martino, and you shouldn’t bother arguing with me, because we both know it’s true.”
“Sure, we do, but you’re forgetting something important…she wants me back, and Eve gets what she wants.”
I stepped back from Chase and strode out of the building, his words ringing in my ears. A sweet, good little girl like Eve. Shewasa good girl. Hardworking, kind, compassionate…where did good girls go to lick their wounds?
Home.
I couldn’t believe that the Martino family house hadn’t been the first place to occur to me. Eve and her mom were very close. Of course, that’s where she would go. Her sanctuary. It hadn’toccurred to me because home was the last place I’d go if I needed comfort.
I was outside and ringing the doorbell fifteen minutes later, having made it across town at record speed.
When no one answered the door, I pounded it with my fist, hoping it would be Eve and not her mom who answered. I had no idea what I’d say to Melly Martino, but I’d think of something.
Hello, Ms. Martino, I’m here to marry your daughter…only problem is, she might hate me.
That probably wouldn’t go down well. Luckily, I was saved from having to worry about it, before the door opened to Eve’s lovely face, fixed in a forbidding scowl.
“What do you want?”
“To talk, no, apologize. I fucked up, Tiny.”
“Don’t call me that.” Eve folded her arms over her chest. She jerked her chin at me. “So, now you know the truth.”
I nodded, forcing myself not to reach for her. It wouldn’t be welcome and I didn’t deserve it, but that didn’t stop me from wanting to.
“My dad has started divorce proceedings. Soon, Colette will be out my life…because of you.”
Eve stared at me and I couldn’t hold back the love that flooded my heart.
“Thank you. I know I overreacted, and hurt you…I fucked up so badly, but you still—” I cut the words off, and sucked down a breath. This wasn’t going anything like I wished it would and I had no idea how to change it.
“Overreacted? You never let me explain. You shut me out. You turned your back on me…and used the things I’d admitted to you in private against me.”
“I know. You’re right. I have no excuse.”
She stepped forward, tears glittering in her eyes. “I could forgive all of that, in time…because I can guess how much it must have hurt to see me with her, to think I’d gone behind your back…I get that, Beckett.”
She did? Of course she did, because my Evie was an angel and I was a monster.
“But then you went and got my mom fired, after threatening to for so long. After knowing what it would do to us?—,”
“What? I never got your mom fired,” I interrupted.
Eve crossed her arms over her chest. “Right. Of course you’d say that.”
“I didn’t. I’d never. Even back when I thought I hated your guts because you’d walked away from me all summer, I’d have never gone through with that. It was only ever to keep you with me, to force you to humor me…to make sure I could have you.”
“How romantic,” Eve muttered, wiping a tear from her eye.
