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“Tucker,” my mother starts to correct him, but I wave her off.
“Why does it bother you so much?”
“It doesn’t,” he shrugs. “I’ve just witnessed him swooping in and making everything sound peachy, until the next morning when he’s finished and no longer has the need for the lady.”
“Sounds to me like you just described yourself,” I challenge, standing to face off with him. “What exactly is your problem with Tyler?” I step to the left, blocking the path to the doorway. “Because you may think I am stupid enough to believe that this is only you trying to protect me, but I don’t buy it. So what is it?”
“Nothing,” he places his hands on his hips.
“Bullshit,” my mom doesn’t attempt to intervene, instead she stands and goes back to the sink, washing the remaining dishes with her back to us. “Tell me.”
He shakes his head, attempting to sidestep me, only I follow his movements.
“You aren’t the first person he knocked up,” my brother's words hit me like a brick wall. I hear something bang against the countertop and I swear the ground sways beneath me.
“Amara,” Tucker shouts my name, then grabs ahold of me, just before I hit the floor.
CHAPTERTHIRTY-NINE
Tyler
“Hey man,” Liam walks into the weight room and I can tell he’s tense, I can see the set jaw and furrowed brows, even though he is doing all he can to remain calm.
“Who did it?” I ask, grabbing the hand weights and starting to curl with my previously wounded arm. I push the limits, I know, but I can’t baby it, I’m ready to prove I’m one hundred percent.
“Can you put the weights down?” I glance back up at him and hold his stare. “I need to tell you something and the last thing I want is for you to drop it on your foot or worse throw it through the wall.”
Lowering the weight to the floor I stand, already feeling my pulse racing.
“You need to come with me,” he steps aside, and I don’t move. “Ty, please, believe me when I say that I need you to follow me.” I give him a wary look. “So, I can take you to the hospital.”
My knees immediately feel weak. I can stand here and ask twenty questions and yes they are all racing through my mind, but instead my feet start to move. Before I can even register my movements I am in Liam’s truck, and we are driving toward the hospital.
My chest grows tighter and tighter as I try to remember to breathe.
“What happened?”
“She got upset and passed out at her parents’ house. Her mom rushed her to the emergency room.”
“What do you mean she got upset?”
Liam works his jaw, and I recognize it as him fighting his anger. What the hell did he have to get angry about.
“Liam?” I push, turning my body in the cab of the truck and stare at him. “What did she get upset about?”
“I’m not sure that we need to worry about that part right now.”
“Oh I think we do need to be worrying about this, right fucking now!”
Liam takes a deep breath, then glances over at me saying the only word I need to understand exactly what’s taken place. “Farrah.”
The idea that my past once again is affecting Amara only pisses me off.
“Apparently she got into it with Tucker and demanded to know what his problem is with you. He tried to shut it down, but she wouldn’t let it go.”
“Let me guess, Tucker told her that some bitch tried telling everyone in Calloway that I got her pregnant.”
“No, he told her that she wasn’t the first person you knocked up.”
