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“You see, he slept with his secretary before we met. Then thought she was pregnant. Turns out she wasn’t. And while he didn’t cheat on me, he should have told me.”
“Uh, huh.” Harper nodded.
In hindsight, it sounded like a close match to a certain situation that had been all over the news.
She only hoped Harper was drunk enough not to piece it all together.
“And so, I just don’t know if I can trust him,” Amelia explained. “You know.”
Harper kept nodding.
“Clearly, I can’t,” Amelia added, expecting her agreement any moment.
But it didn’t come. Instead, Harper took her hand.
“Babes. What he did was wrong. No doubt. A price he’s paying for, by the sounds. You should get to know him more. Then you’ll know who he is as a man. Writing him off after falling so deeply for him? That might be a little rash.”
“Or sensible.”
“Or that you have trust issues.”
Oh.
Well.
Yes.
She knew that. Amelia didn’t trust people. But they weren’t usually trustworthy, so...
“You trust Aidan and Logan,” Harper said.
“Of course, they love me.”
“So does Jack. You said he didn’t cheat on you.”
She barked out her laugh. “Two weeks. He’d already knocked up his secretary.”
“But didn’t.”
No. That’s true. He hadn’t.
“Why are you so pragmatic?” Amelia said, flopping back into her chair.
Harper smiled and glanced over at her husband.
“I know how scary it is to open your heart and trust someone. Daniel was not a man who committed. He was a hard and dominant man who thought women existed for his pleasure,” Harper explained. “I had to be smart but soften to let him in. Terri-fucking-fying. Trust me.”
Amelia snorted her laugh. “I bet. My brothers are big tough guys, but Daniel is a whole other level.”
Harper leaned in. “Yeah, but the sex is totally worth it.”
They both grinned.
Still, as much as the conversation with her cousin’s wife had taken the edge off, Amelia had woken up and the clench around her heart had returned.
It was too risky.
