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He held up his hand. “Just leave, Tiffany.”
“Baby, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean for this to happen. I was sick of being here without anyone giving me attention.”
“Don’t you dare fucking blame this on me,” he roared. “You made a series of choices, and then you fucked another man behind my back and lied to me for a year. Get out of my house and don’t come back.”
She nodded before placing his key on the counter.
Water dripped from his soaked clothes, pooling where he stood like a statue, stone cold, as his whole world crumbled beneath him. Her heels clicked on the tiles as she walked out of his life for good. He braced himself for the slam of the door, but it never came. Hollow silence filled his home. Tears burned his eyes as he swallowed the lump of grief. He wouldn’t waste any more time or energy on her.
Andre stalked to his bathroom, stripping off his clothes before he entered the hot spray of the shower. His heart was fractured, breaking apart. How could he have not known? Flashes of all the times she’d been on her phone and full of smiles or taking calls out of earshot of him came back with a vengeance. He had never even thought to check her phone. Because I believed in her. He’d given her his trust and his loyalty and where had that gotten him?
He’d been made the fool again. His high-school girlfriend, Teresa, had screwed half the football team before he’d found out. He’d thought that had been a one-off. Apparently not.
Anger radiated through him. He was done with women. He was done with liars. He was just done giving a fuck about anyone but his family and friends. It was safer for his heart that way. He’d never be taken advantage of and played for a fool again.
