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Not anyone else.
Him.
It’ll always be his.
Right now, even though I love him, I want to kick his ass.
“Are you nuts?” I screech when he walks through the front door with his computer bag, anger on his face. “James said you went to his lecture hall and threatened him.”
His visit to James shouldn’t surprise me. Even after the lies, Rex will always protect me. It’s what he’s done our entire friendship—with my cousins, with anyone who gave me shit, and now, with James. Rex would destroy anything in the world than see me in pain.
The cold glare aimed in my direction confirms I’m not the only mad person in the room.
“Sure did,” he snaps.
“Rex,” I say carefully. “Please don’t get involved in this. I asked you to leave it alone, and I’ll figure it out.”
“Figure it out?” he shouts, his eyes not leaving me. “What is your plan onfiguring it out?”
I chew on my lower lip. “I don’t exactly know that yet.”
His anger heightens. Even last night, he wasn’t this upset. Dread takes over my body as I wait for him to throw whatever he’s pissed about at me.
James told him something.
The question is,What did he tell him?
“When did you plan to tell me the reason you won’t divorce him is because he’s blackmailing you with nude pictures?”
Good thing I’m sitting, or my knees would’ve given out, and I’d be crying on the floor. I’d love nothing more than to sink into these cushions and disappear. The pie I ate at work earlier is threatening to make an appearance in this argument … talk … whatever it is.
He told him.
I want to slice and dice James right now.
Go Lorena Bobbitt on him.
It takes me a moment to find my voice and not die in front of him. “He … he told you?”
“He fucking showed me,” he hisses through clenched teeth. “I wanted to kill the bastard.”
I close my eyes as they burn with tears and choke out my answer, “He’s been holding it over my head since the night we broke up.”
Rex will never look at me the same way again.
“Are you shitting me?” he screams. “You’ve just been letting him threaten you all this time? What the hell, Carolina?”
“I didn’t know what to do!” I sob.
That’s right.
I was stupid and sent James naked pictures of myself.
I was evenstupiderbecause I didn’t even cut off my face in those pictures.
James knows he has me right where he wants me—the preacher’s daughter whose reputation means so much. All he’s done since we broke up is threaten me with them.
“Gee, I don’t know,” he argues. “Ask your best fucking friend for help! That’s what you could’ve done!”
