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It’s a wonder I don’t burn the car down, I’m so mad as I drive through the wide streets. The clouds are heavy in the sky as we’re coming up to late spring, and that suits me fine. Stormy is how I feel so the weather might as well reflect it.
He asked me to come to his office.
So I did and I bought that fucking letter. I grip the wheel tight, fingers biting into the leather cover. I turned up thinking we might have lunch, that we might . . . I don’t know . . . flirt? Do more?
I shift on my seat and take a corner too fast.
I’m furious at him and at myself.
Because I didn’t want to flirt, I wanted to get naked. I wanted to entice him to seduce me, to do a slow, hot mamba with him, ending in multiple orgasms.
As if it was my right when he’s passing it around like last night never happened.
Pathetic. Idiotic. Naïve. There are mountains of words I can throw at myself and at him, and right now, I don’t want to be here.
I wish I’d told him where to go last night.
I’m rolling with thunder by the time I park, and I march into the lodge. Dakota’s behind the counter and I wait until she finishes checking in a couple from out of town and they’re away before I lock eyes with her.
“Uh oh. What happened?”
I stalk up to the counter and slam a fist down. “He’s playing me.”
She mouths some choice swear words and glances around. We’re alone, it’s lunch time, and normally, I’d be hunting for food from the kitchen but right now food is the last thing I want.
Unless it’s laced with rat poison and force-fed to Leland.
“I can rip more flesh from his bones if you want,” she says calmly, not even asking me what’s going on.
It’s why I love her. She won’t try and talk me down when I’m in this mood. She’s already team Sarah.
“You know I slept with him, and I even gave him a chance—a chance—because that’s the kind of fucking moron I am. What kind of dickmatized idiot gives a man like Leland Conley a chance? I need a bath in acid.”
She sighs heavily and puts her hand on mine. “What happened? You seemed okay before you left.”
“He asked me to come to his office and I—” I didn’t tell her about the letter that came. I don’t want her worrying while planning a wedding. I throw my bag down. “And you know what I saw? Willa.”
“That skank.” She squeezes my hand. “You’re my girl, Sar and I’ll go into battle for you, no questions asked.”
“There’s a but coming.”
“It’s not a hot man ass, but it’s a but.” She wrinkles her nose. “Willa’s the kind of woman who has zero self-respect. You’ve seen her in action. But those guys? The Norhill Tops Hot Dudes Club—”
“You’re going with that?” I roll my eyes. Leland doesn’t deserve a club, unless it’s one from the caveman era aimed at his head.
“For now. But none of them, as far as I know, will even think about touching her or her equally slutty friends. Those girls are bottom-of-the-barrel sludge.”
“Like Michelle?”
“No, my fucking nasty half-sister is a special breed.” She shudders. Then she looks me in the eye. “But if you want, I have my gun, and I can shoot him.”
“Then your sexy sheriff will have to arrest you.”
“I’ve never done it in a jail cell. Could be kinky.” She smiles dreamily for a second, then frowns. “For you, I’ll shoot him.” Dakota pauses. “Leland, not Lawson.”
I have to laugh. Even through my anger and self-disgust, I laugh. Then I lean on the desk and hang my head. “Maybe I just need to get out of here.”
“Leave?”
