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“So it would seem.”Ass.
She shook her head, her nostrils flaring. “If he really cared for you like you deserved to be cared for, he wouldn’t do this. He’d respect your ‘no contact’ wish and let you go.”
“You’re getting riled up all over again.”
“How can I not? What he’s doing is so fucking selfish. Well, I’m no longer in danger of feeling sorry for him—that ship has sailed.”
I closed the van’s sliding door. “Let’s forget about them. They’re not important.”
“Too right they aren’t. But I’m going to say one last thing before we switch topics.”
“Okay.”
“If he leaves her and comes crawling back to you, you’d be a fool to give him another chance. Don’t get me wrong, you’re my bestie; I’d support you if you made that choice. But I’ll never believe he deserves you, and if you marry him I will wear black to the wedding. And I don’t mean a hot or classy number either. ThinkThe Woman in Black.That’s what you’ll be faced with. I will make sure I look creepy as fuck. Small children will cry and run from me.”
I felt my lips quirk. “You have no need to worry. Even if I still loved him, which I don’t, I wouldn’t take him back.”
“You’re sure about that?”
“Yes. I don’t blame him for putting his kids first—I never will, never could. For their sake, I’m glad he did. But he’d promised me that, no matter what, he’d never go back to Felicity. I believed him. I believed in him. Inus. In all the other little promises he made.”
She gave a nod of understanding as she said, “And he broke your faith by so carelessly making those promises without being positive he could keep them.”
“You don’t toss around promises like that so offhandedly. You just don’t. I can’t be with someone whose word I can’t trust. And so I’m done with him. I’ll never, under any circumstances, take him back. I wouldn’t want to.”
Sabrina curled her arm around my shoulders. “He quite simply isn’t good enough for you. You’ll find someone who is, and then everything your exes did will cease to mean anything. I can say that from personal experience. Tamara made me realize all I’d missed in my past relationships—the hurt and regret just vanished like magic. Because if any of those relationships had worked out, I wouldn’t now have her.”
I sent her a playful snarl. “You two are so in love it’s sickening. Ollie and Marleigh are just as bad—I get cavities in my teeth just seeing how sweet they are together.”
“They are beyond cute. And now they’re having a baby! I’m so excited to be an aunt. Hey, just think, when they finally walk down an aisle, you and me will be sisters-in-law.” Sabrina dropped her arm to her side. “She’d better make me her maid of honor.”
“I think Harri will get that privilege—they’re super close. They have been since they were babies.”
“I don’t care. I’m selfish that way.”
I snorted. “Now … let’s round up the rest of the team. We need to go get some sleep before we embark on clean-up.”
“Oh, I’m all for that.”
Chapter Six
“Do you recognize him, Miss Davenport?”
Staring at the security monitor the next day, I felt my hands ball up. Oh, I recognized the little shit all right. “Yes.”
This was really not my ideal way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I’d planned to dedicate several hours to basically doing nothing once I’d finished clean-up duty. The call I’d received on my way home had changed that. And now here Sabrina and I stood in the security office of our work building, glaring at the paused clip of a familiar figure graffitiing my reserved parking space sign.
More specifically, he’d sprayed the word “WHORE” beneath my name in red paint.
“That fucker,” said Sabrina, her eyes blazing with fury behind her glasses.
“Want us to call the sheriff?” asked Wayan, one of the two security guards. He stood beside me, his face like thunder.
I forced my hands to unclench. “There’s really no point.”
“Why not?”
“Because he won’t do a damn thing about it. That kid right there is Blaise Buchanan, his great-nephew.”
