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I swallowed hard. Again, Toby knew how to get right to my insecurities, and my whole life, I had been worried that I was nothing but boring.
“Shut up,” I said under my breath.
“He cheated on Colin’s mother, after all,” Toby said, and I froze in my tracks as I was about to turn away from him.
Alice made a noise in the back of her throat. “Katie,” she started, but I wasn’t listening.
“What did you say?”
“Oh, you didn’t know? Didn’t he tell you?” he taunted. “I guess you don’t know him as well as you think you do, sweetheart.”
Toby took the two hundred dollar bills that I’d thrown at him and walked back toward his car. I stood there, shell-shocked.
Alice took my hand. “Katie, you mustn’t listen to him.”
“Of course not,” I said flatly. “I won’t listen to him.”
But how could I not hear what he said? I felt heartbroken. Why didn’t Adam tell me that he’d cheated on Colin’s mother? From everything he’d said, she was just a one-night-stand. Why would he lie to me?
And if he was lying about that, what else was he lying about? Or was it Toby that was lying again? My head was spinning.
Chapter 22
Adam
Icalled Katie for the fourteenth time in two days from my hotel room in Los Angeles. The phone rang and rang, but she never picked up. I’d been in Los Angeles for an important meeting, trying to make a merger with a major airline. I’d barely been paying attention in the board room, thinking of how I could be home, seeing Katie, spending time with her.
I’d never thought of a woman like this before. Katie was always in my mind, always right on the tip of my tongue.
I sat on the hotel bed, zapping through the channels mindlessly. I couldn’t stop thinking about her, about the last time we were in Los Angeles.
She’d been so bright and happy on the jet, so full of life. Everything had been going so perfectly, so why wasn’t she answering?
I frowned, worried. I knew that sometimes Katie got caught up with grading summer school papers and didn’t look at her phone, but for two whole days?
I didn’t know what had happened to her, and although I had a couple more days of work in LA, I knew that I needed to see her.
She was carrying my babies, after all, and besides, I missed her.
I missed her greatly, actually. I didn’t know if it was exactly love, but it was as close as I’d ever gotten to it.
I didn’t know how to tell her, not yet, but I had plans to. Not being able to reach her was more than concerning.
I needed to find out what was going on with her.’
I called the airport and booked a flight home, packing up my things and checking out of the hotel.
On the ride to the airport, I didn’t even listen to the radio. I kept putting the air conditioning on, turning it back off. I couldn’t get comfortable.
I called my best friend, Gray, to tell him that I was cutting the meeting short. I’d never cut a meeting short in the whole time that I’d owned the airline, so I knew that Gray would be upset. I knew he could handle things, though. Gray was better with clients than I was, better at wowing them, wining and dining them.
“Adam, please.These areveryimportant clients,” he pleaded.
I knew they were important. After all, we stood to make billions if the deal went through, but I just couldn’t see myself being in such an important meeting, stressed out and worried about Katie. With my current mindset, I was more of a liability than an asset. Gray would do better without me.
“You’re an excellent salesman, Gray. You’ve got this,” I said easily. “I’ve got stuff at home to take care of.”
“Colin?” he asked.
