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He sounded so pitiful.
“Yero, I’m sorry, but I don’t really know who you are.”
“Who I am? Saundra, are you having a nervous breakdown? Put Asha on the phone.”
“Asha is at work.”
“I’m on my way.”
Yero hung up before I could say another word.
I heard footsteps behind me and then a deep male voice said, “Another brother bites the dust!”
Too frightened to even scream, I whirled around and came face-to-face with a six-foot stranger who was emerging from Asha’s bedroom.
“Oh, my God! Who are you?”
He looked confused and then backed up, holding his hands above his head. “Nick Seabrook. Asha’s friend.”
My throat felt dry. “How did you get in?”
“I was already here when you came last night.”
I vaguely remembered Asha mentioning a man in her bed. “Oh. Right.”
He lowered his arms. “Don’t start tripping and shoot me, okay?”
“Okay.”
He sighed. “Jeez! You put a pillow under a sister’s head so her cheek don’t get scratched on leather and cover her up with a blanket so she doesn’t freeze to death and then in the morning she wants to kill you.”
I went back to the sofa. “Sorry.”
He sat down beside me. “So, who was the brother that you just kicked to the curb?”
“My ex-fiancé.”
Ex-fiancé. The phrase hung in the air until it made me double over in pain.
Nick dropped his jocular air. “There isn’t a man on earth who is worth that kind of agony,” he said quietly. “Try to forget whatever he has done to you.”
“He didn’t do anything,” I wailed.
“Excuse me?”
“Well, he did do something. I just don’t know what it is yet and I have no intention of sticking around to find out.”
Nick stared at me and said nothing but I didn’t feel like explaining.
Chapter 34
ASHA
I was calculating a spreadsheet when Kevin rang to say my sister was on the phone.
“Saundra, are you all right?”
“Yes. I just called to warn you that my ex might show up at Macy’s today.”
