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I know he’s right. We head out to my truck and get in.
“So you asking her out means that you don’t like her?” I tease, knowing I’m pushing my luck. He gives me a look that tells me to shut the fuck up. A laugh escapes as I pull out of the parking lot. “Okay, fine. I’ll just assume you’re in love with her,” I joke as he groans.
This is gonna be a fun day.
17
Harper
This is not a good idea.
I say this over and over and over again to myself as I sit in my car and stare at a house that I swore I would never set foot in again. I can’t get those photos out of my head, and I can’t get rid of this nagging feeling that Cole had something to do with it. So here I am, sitting outside his house that is filled with memories I would rather forget. But I need to get answers and the only way I can do that is to walk through that front door.
The second I knock on the front door I wonder if I’ve actually lost my mind, and as I wait for Cole to answer, I secretly hope he isn’t home so I can walk away and never come back. But before I can run like I want, I hear his footsteps and before I know it, the door is open and I’m staring at the man that has harassed me for the past few months.
“Well, well, well. I knew you would come crawling back. Josh not doing it for you anymore?”
I roll my eyes, needing to get this over with so I can leave and forget I was ever in love with this man.
“Nice try, Cole, that’s not why I’m here.” I’m still standing on the porch, his large shoulders and imposing physique taking up the entire doorway. “Can I come in?”
He raises an eyebrow and that seductive smirk crosses his face and I take a deep breath.
“Please Cole, I know you hate Josh and the fact that we’re seeing each other is something you still can’t comprehend, but I really need to talk to you, and I would rather not do it out here on your porch.”
For a second, I think he’s going to tell me to fuck off, but after a beat, that smug look vanishes and a somber one takes its place right before he steps aside and lets me in.
“If you’re not here because you and Josh are done, why should I care?”
I suppress a laugh, not understanding how one gigantic ego can fit into this one man.
“Can you just shut your mouth for one minute and listen to me? I know for the three years we were together, it wasn’t something you wanted to do, but please… just listen.” I watch as the ego I know so well leaves his body and he deflates into the couch behind him.
“What do you want, Harper.”
“I need to ask you something and I need you to be one-hundred-percent honest with me.”
He sighs audibly, leaning back as his head tilts back. I take a seat on the chair opposite him and lace my fingers together.
“A couple of weeks ago I got sent some pictures of Josh and I that were…” I trail off, not really knowing how to put this, and yet when I look at Cole and I see that blank look on his face it tells me I need to be blunt, or we’ll be here forever. “Someone took pictures of Josh and I while we were having sex in his truck…” I cringe as the last part leaves my mouth and Cole bursts into a fit of laughter.
“You’re kidding me! You fucked him in his truck? Do you know how many times I begged you to do that and you refused?”
For fuck’s sake, why does everything have to come back to him.
“Yes, I fucked him in his truck, get over it, Cole.”
“So why are you telling me? Just to rub in the fact that you’re doing things with him you refused to do with me? Or just to gloat about how hot you look in those pictures because if I remember correctly when you come…”
I hold up my hand to stop him from speaking.
“Shut the fuck up, Cole. We’re not here to discuss whether or not we looked hot in the photos.” Although we did. “I want to know if you took them.”
His eyes widen and he sits up immediately.
“You think I followed you, took these pictures, and am what, blackmailing you?”
I nod my head because he’s the only one I can see doing that to me. To us.
