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I handed the phone back to her. “Have you spoken to him?”
Deanna took her phone from me, tears spilling down her cheeks, and shook her head. Her gaze settled on the picture of Lance kissing a girl who wasn’t her, and I watched as her breathing became shallow.
“I’m going to be sick,” she warned me.
Not thinking twice about it, I took her by the arm and moved toward the exit. Once we were outside, she bent over and emptied the contents of her stomach on the ground. I stood there, holding her hair away from her face and stroking her back.
This was awful.
Devastating.
I wanted to make Cam aware of the situation, so when Deanna and I didn’t return in a reasonable amount of time, he’d understand why. Unfortunately, my phone was inside, and nobody else was around.
“It’s okay,” I assured her. “You’ll get through this, Deanna.”
I wasn’t sure I was offering her any real comfort. If the roles had been reversed and I had just learned that Jesse was cheating on me, I didn’t think there was anything anyone would be able to tell me that would make it better.
It would never be better.
“Why would he do this?” she asked through her sobbing.
“I don’t know. But you deserve so much better. I thought that days ago, and he just confirmed it now. If he couldn’t even be bothered to tell you the truth to your face or to end things officially before moving on to someone else, he’s not good enough for you,” I replied.
Deanna’s emotions got the best of her, and she heaved all over again. I continued to hold her hair and rub her back as I looked around the parking lot.
Suddenly, I saw a familiar face walking in our direction.
“Everything okay?”
“Oh, Kurt. Thank goodness you’re here. Would you mind going in and letting Cam, Ernie, or even Kelly know that Deanna and I are out here? I could use a hand.”
Kurt gave me a nod. “Sure.”
“Thank you,” I said, returning my attention to Deanna.
The moment I looked away, it happened.
My hands were yanked away from Deanna, and a big body grabbed me from behind. It took me a fraction of a second to realize that Kurt was dragging me away through the parking lot.
“Help!” I cried out as I struggled and fought against his hold.
Deanna was still sick over what she was going through and vomiting that she didn’t notice what was happening until Kurt had dragged me so far away from where she was. By the time she noticed, he was already opening a door on the side of a van.
A moment later, he tossed me inside and slammed the door shut.
I attempted and failed horribly to get out. Everything was locked, and I had no way to even crawl through to the front.
The next thing I knew, the engine started, and the van started moving.
All I could think was that by the time Jesse got here, I’d already be gone and dead.
NINETEEN
Jesse
“Hey, do you have a minute?”
I was at Harper Security Ops, standing in the doorway to an office, looking at my closest friend, Jagger.
