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“If there’s anyone involved, I’m going to destroy them.” I drop my head into my hands and groan. “She’s not going to trust me. Tina’s been through a lot, and her belief in good men is hard as fuck. She doesn’t like famous guys for this reason. Women are always throwing themselves at them, and wives and girlfriends have to deal with the constant threat of losing them to temptation.”
“Yeah, but you’re not that guy,” my brother says.
“Yeah, but she’s afraid he is,” Sammie says. She’s been through that with my brother, so she understands more than anyone else.
“We’ll stop by in the morning before she goes to work,” Doc says.
I shake my head vehemently, pressing my hands on the back of his seat. “No, I can’t wait. The more she sits there thinking about it, the more she’s going to be upset. It has to be tonight.”
“It’s like twelve thirty. By the time we get there, it will be almost two,” Danny reminds me.
“Fuck. What if she won’t see me?”
“We’ll make her see you,” Sophia says, smiling at me and taking my hand.
“I can’t just burst into her apartment after what that asshole did.”
“I’ll make her see me,” Sammie insists.
“Will you?”
“Yes.”
Doc was right; with a light snow, it’s almost two by the time we get to Steeleville. We enter the building quietly, and the tension rushes up my spine.
“Sammie, are you ready?” Doc asks.
“Yep.” She knocks lightly and I want to lose my cool, but I remain calm. After everything that has happened, I can’t go in there like a raging bull.
Chapter Ten
Tina
There are no words for the anger I feel toward myself. He may have tried to play me, but I’m the one who played myself. I talked myself into believing that he could be different, the exception to the rule.
Sitting with my phone in my hand, my thoughts blur into nothingness and I eventually pass out from exhaustion. I’m awoken by the sound of knocking at my door. It’s a light knock, taking me by surprise. Looking at my phone, it’s after two in the morning.
“Knock harder—she’s not going to hear that shit.”
“Oh my God,” I whisper to myself. Is that my boss?
The knocking is louder. “Who is it?”
“It’s Samantha Miller. I need to speak with you. Can I come in?”
I go to the door and open it slightly and she slides inside, closing it quickly behind her. “My brother’s outside waiting.”
“What’s going on? Is everything okay?” I ask, wondering why she’d come here in the middle of the night considering her bother and I were really nothing.
She grabs my shoulders and pulls me into a hug and then steps back to look me in the eyes. “Obviously not. Sweetie, you’ve been crying.”
“It’s nothing.” It’s nothing, I wipe my face with the edge of my tee shirt. I forgot I was in my tiny pajama shorts and tank top, but it’s only her and Dr. Simmons is outside, so it’s fine.
“Don’t lie to me, girl. I’ve been where you are.”
My mouth falls open and I don’t hold back. “And you still married that lying prick?”
Sammie shakes her head. “Danny didn’t lie to me, and Mike didn’t lie to you.”
