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His face falls. “No, but I fucking should have.”
My lips twitch, but it’s short-lived. Feeling somber again, I ask, “Aiden, why are you here?”
Resting his elbows on his knees, he looks down for a moment before answering. “If you didn’t lie to me, I don’t want to be the reason this doesn’t work.”
“I didn’t lie to you.” Letting out a sigh, I pull my phone out of my bag, “I know the texts you’re talking about. Garret was drunk—and apparently delusional.”
Aiden bounces his heel against the ground as he stares at the phone in my hand. “Can I see?”
I open my mouth to make a comment about him not trusting me, but when I look into his eyes, I can see what he’s feeling so clearly.
He doesn’t trust me.
Because he doesn’t trust anyone.
When Sam deceived him, she didn’t only break his trust in her, she broke his trust in people. The realization squeezes around my heart. Garret broke my trust in him, but I still give people the benefit of the doubt. Aiden keeps his heart guarded, and he doesn’t want to take my word for this.
I hand my phone to him without saying anything and watch as he reads over the messages.
“Huh,” he finally says, his foot no longer bouncing.
“What?”
He hands my phone back to me. “Believe it or not, those messages are more PG than I thought they’d be.”
I glance down at the messages again before locking eyes with him. “How so?”
He nods toward my phone. “I could only see part of the text, but I assumed he ‘couldn’t wait to see you’ naked on the kitchen floor and ‘wanted you to feel’ his—”
“Please don’t.” I grimace just thinking about where he was going with that.
And then I laugh.
I don’t know what comes over me, but I laugh, and it feels ridiculous. Eventually, I’m able to get out, “The kitchen floor?”
He shrugs. “I liked seeing you there.”
That shuts me up.
I swallow the lump in my throat and try to get back on track. “So, you thought I was making sexy plans with my ex, and that’s why you got so mad?”
His mouth twitches at sexy plans but turns serious again to answer my question. “I should have just asked you about it, but I was too pissed. I hate being lied to, and I thought you were the last person who’d do it.”
“But I didn’t—”
He holds up a hand to stop me. “I know. That’s why I’m here. If anything, I owe you an apology.”
“Because you kissed Sam,” I mutter.
He shakes his head. “She kissed me. I kissed her back at first, but I stopped it.”
I know why he kissed her. It’s the same reason why I kissed Chad. What I don’t know, is if I should trust him.
Before I can think of anything to say, he adds, “I shouldn’t have talked to you the way I did either. I was mad and drunk, and...” He rubs his hands over his face before shaking his head. “There’s no excuse.”
“Yeah,” I say quietly as I stare down at my hands.
That much I can agree with.
