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“Everything okay?” he asked, brushing my hair away from my face.
I couldn’t look him in the eye.
I flipped through pages in a book I didn’t really read. I was pretty sure I was holding it upside down, too, but couldn’t tell, since my eyes could barely register the shape of the book, let alone its contents.
“Sure. I just got my period,” I lied.
“I could still stay,” he suggested, his hand sliding from my cheek, his thumb tilting my chin up to face him. “I’m not coming here just for the sex.”
“Well, I’m not in the mood to give you a blow job, either.”
“Francesca,” he growled, and my eyes darted up to meet his.
I hated the fact that I loved him so much. He was right. Love, by definition, was unrequited. One party always loved more.
“Should I be worried?” he demanded.
“What about?” I flipped another page.
“Your ability to read, for one thing. You’re holding it upside down,” he snapped.
I closed the book.
“You. Us. This.” He motioned between us with his hand.
“No.”
Silence fell between us, but he still wouldn’t leave. I became agitated.
It was weird how we started the morning unassumingly, with a strawberry milkshake and a quickie, and how fast we could turn into enemies again.
“Let’s go outside. You can suck on a cancer stick and bring me up to speed about what crawled up your ass.” He stood up and snatched my cigarette pack from my desk.
“No, thank you.” I forgot to throw away the cigarettes when I got back home tonight, but they were definitely not on the menu for me in the foreseeable future.
“Nothing you want to say to me?” He scanned my face again, his jaw tense, his eyes dark and feral.
“No.” I reopened the book, this time in the right direction.
“Do you want me to come with you to the OB-GYN?”
My pulse jumped, hammering against my throat.
“Nice of you to offer months later, but the answer is still no. Can I be left alone, please? I think I outdid my duty as a trophy wife and a warm hole at night this week.”
He narrowed his eyes, taking a step back. My words hurt him—the man who was steel and metal. He turned around and dashed away before we exploded on one another.
I fell to my pillow and cried as soon as the door shut behind him, making up my mind.
Tomorrow, I was going to open the box and retrieve the very last note.
The one that would determine if Wolfe really was the love of my life.
Chapter
Sixteen
FRANCESCA
