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“Wait, what?” That was news to me. “You hit Cap?”
Orion nodded. “When he said that you were a good fuck, I finally lost it.”
Knowing better than to ask, I couldn’t stop myself. “What all did Cap say to you?”
“It was stupid,” he replied. “Nothing that bears repeating-”
“What did he say?” I asked again. “I have the right to know.”
Orion’s bedroom eyes regarded me carefully, and it must have been worse than I had given Cap credit for. I also knew that I was going to have to come clean about Cap visiting me today if there was going to be any chance of me and Orion working this out, which I still wasn’t sure if I wanted it to.
Finally, he said, “At first, he asked me how his leftovers tasted.” I winced. “Then he told me not to get mad because he had you first. I warned him to keep your name out of his mouth, but he wouldn’t listen. Instead, he started talking about the birthmark on the inside of your thigh and how he found it too irresistible not to lick.”
“Orion-”
“Hey, you wanted to know.”
I nodded. “No, you’re…you’re right.”
“Then he said that no one was a better fuck than you were, and you were guaranteed to drain a man dry.” I winced again. Cap had made it sound like I was a porn star or something. “The final straw was when he mentioned how good you sucked dick, and that he regrets not fucking your ass, though your pussy was five-stars.” Orion shrugged. “I swung after that.”
“Jesus Christ,” I swore under my breath as I slid a hand over my head. My ponytail was a frizzy mess, but I didn’t care. The homeless look never bothered me before.
“I got suspended two games and fined,” he remarked, seemingly unbothered by this mess.
“What do you want from me, Orion?” I threw my hand up to stop his obvious answer. “And don’t say a second chance, because I’m not sure if I can do that.”
Orion shook his head. “No,” he said. “You already agreed to marry me.”
“That right there,” I replied, pointing a finger at him. “That’s insane, Orion. You can’t possibly want to marry me after only a few weeks of knowing me.”
“The fuck I can’t,” he snorted. “I know what I feel, and I know that I’ve never felt it for anyone else ever in my life.” He grabbed my hips, then yanked me towards him. “We don’t have to get married tomorrow, but I will be putting my ring on your finger soon. Even if it’s just an engagement ring for right now.”
“This is insane,” I repeated. “I haven’t even forgiven you, Orion. I don’t even know if I can.”
“I don’t care!” he roared, releasing me before taking a step back. “I don’t fucking care if you forgive me or not. I just need you with me. You can hate me every fucking day of our marriage as long as you’remine. That’s all I want, Sinclair.”
Looking him in the eye, I told him the absolute truth of the matter. “I don’t trust you, Orion.” I watched as he closed his eyes in defeat. “I’m attracted to you, and I even care for you. More than I should, if I’m being completely honest. But I don’t trust you, and what kind of relationship would that be? Especially, when you don’t trust me yourself.”
“That’s not true,” he lied. “I trust you.”
I shook my head. “No, you don’t. You’re so used to only trusting Nova, Sebastian, Raven, Atlas, and Titan that you don’t know how to trust anyone else.”
“That’s not true,” he repeated. “I trust you, and that’s why I thought you had betrayed me. I had trusted everything about us to the point that I lost my shit when Cap started opening his mouth. That’s why the betrayal had felt so brutal. My heart wouldn’t have felt as it’d been ripped out of my chest if I hadn’t trusted you, Sinclair.”
“Orion-”
He had my face in his hands before I could finish my sentence. “I love you, Sinclair,” he said. “I know it like I know my own name. I just need one chance to prove it to you. I need only one chance, because I will never hurt you again. I swear it on my life.”
“I can’t take that chance-”
“Yes, you can,” he insisted. “You can because, deep down, you know that I’m nothing like Aldrich. You know that there’ll never be anyone else for me. You’re it, Sinclair. You were it the moment we met.”
Harleys words were swimming around in my head, and they made me wonder if I really was making Orion pay for Cap’s betrayal. Was I being unfair because I really hadn’t processed the humiliation, only pretending to have moved on? I honestly didn’t know.”
“Baby, talk to me,” Orion begged. “Please, just talk to me.”
Against my will, tears began to fall, and I felt like I was crying the last ten years out of my system. Orion’s arms automatically wrapped around me, holding me tightly as I cried, and as crazy as it sounded, I felt a sense of peace as Orion let me cry the last few days out in his arms.
