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“Navie,” Rowan gasped, quickly untangling himself from the brunette standing before him. In a blink, he was moving. “Oh, shit, Navie. It’s not—”
“No!” I shouted, taking a huge step back. “Don’t come near me. Don’ttouchme.”
“Rowan,” the woman, who looked like she’d just stepped off a runway, spoke from behind him. “Honey, who’s this?”
At the sound of her calling him ‘honey’, I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me whole.
“JesusfuckingChrist,” he spit out, his hands raking over his face before he turned to look over his shoulder. “Not now, Bree. Just—”
I took another step back. “Bree?” I wheezed as my lungs deflated. “Oh, God. This isBree?”
I watched as his icy blue eyes widened as what he just said registered. “No! No, no, no, no. Baby, don’t think that…”
And with that, I shattered completely. “You were just fucking kissingBree!” I shouted so loud my throat hurt.
“Navie, just listen to me!”
“Fuck you!” I yelled. My world turned upside-down. I had given my heart to this man completely and he’d just ruined me. A devastation like no other wound its way through my chest, squeezing my heart and choking out every bit of free space. Those familiar memories from my childhood filled my head so completely, they were all I could think about.
No one would ever want me. I’d never have a family because I wasn’t worthy of anyone’s love. One person after another cast me out without a care in the world because I was just a sad, lonely little girl. I was so pathetic, my own mother didn’t even want to keep me.
I would never,everbe good enough.
Rowan’s arms pulling me against his body jerked me back into the present. “Navie, please.”
“Let go of me,” I spoke in a low, heartbroken voice.
“No,” he insisted stubbornly.
“Rowan.” The sound of Bree’s voice pulled me from my anguished haze. Yanking myself from his hold, I stumbled backwards, tripping over my own feet and nearly falling to the ground.
He came forward quickly, trying to steady me with his hands, but I slapped them away before he could touch me again. “I hate you,” I said through gritted teeth, speaking the three words I’d never said to anyone before.
The way his face crumbled in agony would have killed me, had I not already been bleeding out.
“Rowan!” Bree said again, her grating voice demanding attention.
“Fuckinghell!” Rowan shouted. “Just get the fuck out, Bree! Get out!”
Her spine went stiff and her chin lifted into the air. “We have things to discuss.” She responded so calmly that I couldn’t help it. Something inside of me had snapped and I began laughing, the sound manic to my own ears.
“Oh, please, don’t let me keep you, then. I was just leaving.”
Spinning on my heels, I rushed for the front door as tears spilled down my cheeks.
“You’re not fucking leaving!” Rowan snapped. I could hear his steps coming up behind me, but then there was a slip and a loud crash, followed by a booming, “God damn it!”
Just as I cleared the threshold, I looked over my shoulder to see Rowan trying to climb off the floor, having slipped and fallen in the spilled coffee I’d dropped just minutes earlier. It granted me the short reprieve I needed to run to the elevator before he could catch up.
I’d just cleared the landing of the building when a voice called out from behind me. “Navie?” I spun around to see Richard exactly where I’d left him what felt like a lifetime ago. “Shit. Are you okay? What happened?”
That hysterical laughter started again of its own accord. “What iswithyou two, huh?”
Confusion etched into his features. “What are you talking about?”
I didn’t stop to answer him. I was on a roll. “I mean, seriously! Does she have a golden vagina or something? I’ve never heard of two grown men destroying their family over one woman the way the two of you have! The fact that y’all have such a disregard for your own blood disgusts me. Do you have any idea what some people would give to have a family? A brother? And you just ripped it apart. Over a fucking woman!”
“Are you talking about Bree?”
