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I didn’t recognize the voice.
I stood, went to the door. “That’s me.”
“You’ve been served.” The guy handed me a large envelope, then disappeared.
I turned around and the girls huddled me into a circle. On the front the return address was a lawyer’s office in Denver.
Opening it, I pulled out a few pieces of paper. At the top, in big, bold letters: COLORADO PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE.
Mallory gasped as she leaned in. “This makes no sense.”
Bridget wrapped an arm around my waist, set her head on my shoulder. “He’s giving her what she wants. The chance for someone else.”
46
DEX
* * *
“I’m not sure if I can keep up with your workouts,” Silas said, breathing hard and wiping his face with the hem of his t-shirt as we finished our run around Washington Park, just south of Downtown Denver.
I walked beside him for our cool down. “Then I guess you’ll never be drafted. Although you can’t even skate. Maybe mom still has that skate trainer from when we were little.”
He punched my shoulder because he knew what I was talking about–the pipe framing, which looked quite a bit like a walker, was used by little kids to hold onto as they skated. I’d ditched it when I was maybe four. Silas used one until he was ten and then gave up.
“Whatever. At least I’m not dealing with a broken heart by running my brother into cardiac arrest.”
“Fucker.”
“How’s it going?” he asked.
“Like shit,” I replied. “It’s been two weeks. Nothing.”
I lingered in Hunter Valley for three days and didn’t hear from Lindy or knew where she was. Bridget had confirmed she’d heard from her and that she was okay. Well, safe.
I wanted to shake Bridget until she told me where her sister was, but Mav would have beaten the shit out of me, and it wouldn’t have made a difference. Lindy didn’t want me.
After that, I gave up and returned to Colorado. It was over.
I’d fucked up. That night in Vegas, she’s said we should round out our wild Vegas night of drinks and strip clubs by getting married. Doing all the infamous activities. I’d immediately agreed because I wanted Lindy as my wife. It had been what I wanted from the very first time I saw her.
I had the fucking ring the entire time. Even carried it with me just in case. Well, just in case happened.
She didn’t even remember being the one to suggest it. Maybe I’d been stupid to go along with a shallow, empty wedding, but it was a wedding. We were legally married. I didn’t care if we got married at a drive thru or a million-dollar affair at the James Hotel.
All I wanted was Lindy to be Mrs. Dexter James.
“Did it ever occur to you that she’s hurt because you two married for the wrong reasons?”
“I married her because I love her. That’s the only reason to do so.”
News spread of the nuptials like it always did when Dex James was involved. Like wildfire. Scott had fielded calls and interviews and besides a few crazy women, the comments were all positive. Dex James was off the market.
“Did you tell her that?” he asked, walking beside me as we did another loop. He never joined me in any of my off-season workouts, but now he was blatantly checking on me. Theo was back to work at the hospital and hadn’t seen him since Hunter Valley. Something was up his ass besides Maude cheating on him. He was usually quiet and surly and up to his elbows in guts and brains, so he’d get around to telling us eventually.
We shifted to the side to let a woman with a double wide stroller walk pass us.
“No.”
