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“Sorry, what?” she asks, her voice soft.
She’s looking at me now with worry in her eyes.
“I can tell you’re not … feeling like yourself.”
“Oh …” she murmurs.
“Do you feel like talking about it?”
“I don’t know.” She opens and closes the water bottle, twisting the cap around in one hand and the bottle in the other. “It’s kind of embarrassing.”
“I’m not here to judge you. If you want me to listen, I can do that. If you don’t want to talk, I get it.”
I wait, breath held, while she considers the offer.
Chapter twenty
Sapphire
I should have known I would screw this up. I’m not acting enough like my sister, so he knows something is wrong, and literally the only way to make this better is to give him an answer that makes sense.
Right now, all I have is the truth. My heart is broken, and I can’t just smile and dust myself off. As much as I might want to, I can’t pretend it didn’t happen.
“I was seeing someone,” I admit, looking away because I can tell this guy is attracted to Scarlett.
I don’t want to hurt him, but she’s never going to agree to date him, and I can’t hang around here for a week acting like a wonky version of my sister without trying to offer up an explanation.
“One of those music industry guys?” he asks, sounding like he’s trying way too hard to be cool about it. He rips open the pack of M&M’s and they scatter into his lap and start rolling onto the sofa.
The soft, blue leather sofa that’s sitting a few feet across from the identical one I’m sitting on now.
“Yeah,” I lie, knowing they’re the only kind of guys my sister dates. “Do you need any help with those?”
He laughs. “It’s okay, but I feel like I need to tell you, I’m not usually this big of a klutz.”
He gathers the candies up in one hand and looks back at me with those pretty hazel eyes.
“What happened?” he asks, giving me a concerned look that makes me feel all weak inside.
I clear my throat and take a long sip of the water, then I sit up straighter. If I’m going to admit why I’m a little off, I need to keep trying to be Scarlett underneath it all. “He broke up with me. Can you believe that?”
I give a little huff of laughter like she does when she’s kinda pissed.
“No. What kind of idiot breaks up with you?”
God, the way he says that is so growly and possessive. It really makes me wish I wasn’t pretending to be my sister right now. But I am, and he’s talking about her. Scarlett’s always been the bright, shiny twin. The one with the spark everyone is drawn to. This poor guy has no idea how badly she’d burn him if she ever actually gave him a chance to date her.
“Apparently the same kind of idiot who thought it was cool to date other women at the same time.”
Something dark and dangerous flashes in his eyes, and his expression makes my heart hammer.
Of all the times I’ve wanted to do something bad, this is the most desperate I’ve felt to do it.
It takes everything in me to stay right where I am. I want so damn badly to climb into his lap and find out what happens between an Alpha and Omega when they get passionate.
Slow the hell down, Sapphire. He doesn’t even know who you are.
He thinks you’re a singer/songwriter with a fiery attitude and a buttload of unshakeable confidence.
