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“Bull-fucking-shit. This isn’t that big of a deal.”
“Why tell me at all? Why not just let Chase disappear?”
“I couldn’t keep it from you anymore. It was tearing me up inside. I want you. All of you. I’m sick of competing with him. With me.”
“Oh, you mean the guilt of lying to me? That’s tearing you up? I could see why that would upset you. Poor Chase or Tristian or Full Throttle! Whoever you’re calling yourself these days!”
I turned around to leave, but he yanked me back to him.
In a stern tone, he bit, “Don’t walk away from me.”
“I can’t even look at you. I’m so beyond mad at you right now. I can’t believe you’d do this to me. The deceit has replaced all the love I have for you.”
“Kitten, I’m sorry about hiding the truth from you, but I never meant to hurt you. Now look at where we are.” He gestured around the open space. “I’m here. With you. On Montgomery territory. After decades of dealing with a bullshit rivalry that has absolutely nothing to do with us! We’re together, and I don’t think that would have happened if it wasn’t for Full Throttle.”
“We can’t ever know that now, can we?”
I couldn’t believe he had the audacity to try to make this okay, like it wasn’t a big deal. It was such bullshit, and I wanted no part of it. Love makes you blind, and I could see right through the illusion. The backyard suddenly seemed smaller with all his lies taking up the air and space.
“We’re not enemies, kitten. Please don’t make us one.”
The tension escalated with each passing second. The way he knowingly involved himself in my life infuriated me more than words could describe. I swallowed hard, my heart pounding against my chest to the point I swear he could hear it.
“I have nothing else to hide. What you see is what you get. I promise you.”
“Yeah? Well, your looks are deceiving.”
He brushed a loose strand of hair away from my face. His intense eyes narrowed in on me as he swept his thumb across my cheek, but his desperate antics didn’t faze me.
This wasn’t about me. It never was.
I was simply a means to an end for him.
“You don’t want us to be rivals, but you set the track for us to be.”
“Are you serious? Do you honestly think you were nothing but a game to me?”
“You got to fuck a Montgomery.”
“Kitten—”
“Don’t call me that. Better yet, stay away from me.”
“You don’t mean that. You’re just mad at me. I’ll make it up to you. I swear it.”
“It’s too late. The damage is done. How do you not see that is beyond me, Tristian.”
I walked away from the love of my life that evening. Allowing the betrayal to tarnish the love I felt for him. I wish I had known then that this moment, this fight, would be the last we ever had…
There was no going back for us.
He left, and I didn’t see him again for twenty years.
—Tristian—
It was such an unfamiliar emotion for me. To feel so out of control. The truth was staring her in the face. I never meant to hurt her. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. I knew she’d be mad at me, but I didn’t think she’d be this pissed. With the way she looked at me… Love no longer illuminated her green gaze; instead, hatred burned bright.
Just like that, an unsettling and disturbing feeling seeped into the core of my being. Before I knew what was happening, my body turned, moving on its own accord. I hauled ass toward her house, rushing down a long, narrow hallway, passing several other rooms. I noticed how far she’d truly gone to get away from me.
