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“What?” I glanced past him to try to see through the glass. “What did you say to her?”
“Nothing that didn’t need to be said. But I’m not the one who made her cry,bro. That’s on you.”
“Sean, you need to calm down for a minute and make some sense. Why is she—”
“I thought we were friends, Chris.”
I wanted to get past him to see Sav and figure out what was wrong, but that stopped me short.
“You’re my best friend,” I said quickly.
“That’s what I thought. And then I find out you’re fucking around with my little sister.”
“I’m not fucking around—”
“At my own wedding party, no less.” He stepped close, finger in my chest. “You fucked my sister in your truckoutside my wedding party.”
I swallowed hard. Hearing him say it drove home how irresponsible we’d been, doing that where anybody could see. But there was no one around, and I hadn’t thought we were in any kind of danger of being discovered.
Sav obviously hadn’t either, since she was the one who made the first move.
“Don’t try to deny it, Chris. Anna saw you.”
Fucking Anna.
I knew she was that kind of troublemaker, so I shouldn’t have been surprised it was her.
“I’m not going to deny it. But you’ve got it all wrong.”
“And two days later, you’ve already moved on to somebody else!” he shouted.
“Sav and I aren’t just fu—wait, what?”
“You need to up your sneaking game, man. You’ve gotten caught twice in three days. She knows you went to a hotel with another woman. Not me that made her cry, Chris. That’s on you.”
How the hell could she have known that Melanie and I went to The Brimstone? I had to explain, so I tried to step past Sean. He stepped forward, forcing me to move backward away from the door. I could tell he wanted to punch me. “Sean, this is all a misunderstanding. I wasn’twithanother woman.”
I could hardly believe Sav would think that, after everything we’d said.
Everything we’d done.
I could tell him about Melanie’s design for the bookstore now. I wanted to earlier, to share my excitement about it with my best friend, but I didn’t want him to suspect I was doing it because I had feelings for Sav. Thanks to Anna’s big mouth, that didn’t matter anymore.
“It’s a simple explanation. I didn’t—"
Sav and Jackson stepped out of the door behind Sean.
“Sav, baby,” I started. “Listen to—”
“Don’t you call her that,” Sean snapped. “You stay the hell away from her.”
“Sean,” Jackson said. “This is between the two of them. And you’re making a scene in front of my store!”
Jackson grabbed Sean’s arm and urged him to move away from me. Reluctantly, he followed his grandpa and let me take the few steps I needed to reach Sav. Her nose was pink and her eyes-were red-rimmed. She looked on the verge of fresh tears as she gazed at me.
“Savannah,” I said, putting my hands on her shoulders. “Baby, I don’t know who told you that I took a woman to a hotel, but—”
“Nobody told me.” Her voice was barely above a whisper. “I saw you.”
