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“The party’s over, Alex. I’ve got all night.”
Just what she needed at that hour, she thought to herself. How many times would she end up in this situation, the two men that had delightfully and not so delightfully dominated her for the past seven years, staring at her waiting for her to fess up. Reggie so cool, the bastard, having started this in the first place. And Will about to get hurt again at the end of what should have been a glorious triumph. There was no way to make the best of this situation.
“Damn you, Reg,” she said, with as much defiance as she could muster.
Reggie didn’t respond, and Will stood stoically staring at her, immovable in his fixed stance. He wouldn’t move until she’d spoken, this being the kind of confrontation she’d had before. She knew the script well.
“Perhaps I should go,” Reggie said. “Your wife might be more forthcoming.”
“No, you’ll stay,” Will countered. “You might prove to be an important buffer.”
“You two need a buffer?” Reggie commented, intrigued.
“We’ve been fighting a lot,” Will said. He turned back to Alex awaiting her explanation.
“Okay, why don’t you just pin me to the wall with a knife at my neck,” she declared.
“Cut the drama, Alex,” Will snapped.
She sighed. “Okay, so I screwed the painter!”
“What?” Will looked at her confounded. “Kyle? You screwed Kyle?”
“The day you walked out after we fought.”
“You…”
“Yes, I opened my legs and let him have me. Got out all the stress. It couldn’t have been better.” She should have bit her tongue before saying that, but she was sliding fast into the inevitable and she couldn’t stop that forward motion.
Will stared at her, his face going blank, his eyes hardly focused on anything.
Spine tingling tension shot through her while she waited for his reply.
“That easy, huh,” he finally said. “What is it, you’re in cahoots with Jocelyn? You want to run off with her?”
“This has nothing to do with Jocelyn. And no I don’t want to run off with her. We just need things better between us.”
“That’s all there was to it? Screw him and let him go?”
“That’s it.”
“How many other guys you ‘open your legs’ for?”
“Just you.”
“And Kyle.”
“He was once,” she replied desperately. “Dammit, if Reggie hadn’t found out you’d never know.”
“But you would,” Will said right off.
“I’m not sure I’m even sorry it happened,” she said. “I know that doesn’t sound like me, but it came and went so fast that…” Nothing sounded right so she stopped talking.
“Oh, but I think you’ll be sorry when I’m finished with you,” Will remarked. Like he was getting a second wind on the night, almost inspired by the thought of how he’d make her suffer, his eyes lit like two bright beacons coming out of the darkness. “I haven’t blistered your ass in so long, the thought of it is feeling really good.”
Alex was certain that he was far too excited by the prospect that lay before him like candy in front of a three year old. He looked about the room deciding on his plan, then turned to Reggie.
“You can witness, and stop me if I’m going too far?” he asked him.
