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“Are you okay?” He eyed her. “After last night?”
“I don’t know.”
He nodded. “That’s fair.”
“Are you?”
“He’s gone.” Finn sat on the edge of the bed.
Jewel dragged a chair over and sat. “Are you… happy now?”
“Happy?” He mulled it over, pulling his bottom lip between his teeth. “Not really. Empty. I feel empty.”
“It’s like you’ve gotten so used to the pain that when it’s gone, you don’t know what to do with yourself.”
His hazel eyes landed on hers. “Exactly.” Finn dropped his gaze and clasped his hands together. “I want to apologize again. For using you. For everything. I was wrong.”
“Do you mean that? Or are you just apologizing because you completed your mission?”
Finn tilted his head. “I didn’t want to hurt you. That was never my intention.”
“I understand why you did… what you did.” She sighed. “And there’s a part of me that thinks I would do the same.”
“But?”
“But I can’t trust a man who’d lie to me.”
Finn hung his head. “Jewel, I—” He licked his lips. “Truth is my feelings for you weren’t completely fake.”
Her heart jumped. “What?”
Finn opened his mouth but before he could finish, Nolan knocked on the door. “Robinson, for the love of all that is good, please get on the phone and answer Tiff. She’s been calling me all morning.”
Jewel stiffened. Tiff?
“Yeah!” Finn yelled.
Face tightening, Jewel stood. “I should go.”
“Wait, where are you going?”
“You’re obviously busy,” she said, striding for the door. “I didn’t mean to take up most of your time.”
He has a girlfriend. Of course he has a girlfriend. Stupid, stupid.
“Jewel.”
“What?” She spun, becoming doubly annoyed when she saw the smirk on his lips.
“Tiffany’s my step-mother.”
She blinked. It felt like an anchor had just dropped on her chest. “Your… what?”
“She’s running my dad’s company. He passed a couple years after Court. Tiffany’s older and wants to retire.” He lifted an envelope. The same one he’d received a few days ago. “She keeps sending contracts threatening to sell off the company and run away to Hawaii.”
“Your step-mother?” Jewel still couldn’t believe it.
“Yes.” Finn strode closer, his eyes on hers. “What did you think? She was my wife or something?”
