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“No!” I eagerly shouted. “I want to surprise him. He doesn’t know I’m here.”
“Aww! How sweet, Mrs. Colton.”
Mrs. Colton… Talk about a shot to the heart.
She handed me a key fob. “He’s on the penthouse floor.”
Of course he is.
Smiling, I backed away and hurried down the corridor to the private elevator to his floor. The anxiety for what was to come still lived and breathed in my blood. It pumped in my veins, releasing a piercing vibration at my temples. I ignored the looming feeling that I felt in the depths of my core.
Instead, I focused on my task, catching him cheating on me for the second time. My hand was on the handle of the door. Slowly, I opened it, not wanting him to hear I was there. As if being pulled by a string, I made my way inside.
One step.
Six steps.
Nine steps.
Thirteen.
“Yeah, Evie. Just like that.”
I stopped dead in my tracks.
“Are you sure?” she replied, her voice echoing off the walls.
I gasped and placed my hand over my mouth, not wanting to be heard.
The truth blatantly slapped me in the fucking face again. I couldn’t stop my feet from moving, following the sounds of their voices.
Fifteen steps.
Nineteen steps.
Twenty-one.
Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see, about to feel. Sucking all the air from my lungs, taking my heart, the heart that he owned, and shattering it into a million pieces. Pain like this should never be experienced.
It was raw, excruciating torture.
As much as I urged myself not to leave, to run, it willed me to stay in place. My feet were glued to the floor beneath me. I needed to remain strong. Act unfazed. Show no weakness.
When I came face-to-face with the truth, I loudly gasped.
They were sitting in the living room. Her hands were in his lap. Their surprised stare snapped in my direction.
It wasn’t Jax that my eyes were locked on.
It was her.
Evie.
The same woman he’d cheated on me with before he left for Miami.
Throwing me right back to that night…
Where my world as I knew it came tumbling down on me.
