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I stood and let the blanket fall onto the rocker. “I love that you want this to work out for me, Aspen. But you weren’t there. She was wearing his clothes. Coming out of his place. His truck was there. Are you saying she went in, stole some of his clothes, and what? Hunter just slept through it all? Or he let her do this? No. Both scenarios are too unbelievable. They slept together, and for all I know, it wasn’t the first time. Jack could have been covering for Hunter since the beginning.”
When I turned to head into the house, Aspen followed. “I saw the way he looked at you, Kipton. Everyone saw it. A man doesn’t look at a woman like she’s the very air he breathes, then turn around and just fuck someone else. Do you honestly think Hunter would do that?”
I wiped a tear away. “I don’t know what to think anymore.”
“Oh my God, then call him! Why are you being so stubborn? It’s not like you, Kipton.”
Because he broke my heart.
Exhaling, I didn’t say the words aloud. Reaching for the door handle, I stopped when I heard a car pulling into the drive.
“Who’s that?” Aspen asked as I turned.
A cold wind blew through the porch, and I wrapped my arms around my body as I took a step away from the door. I saw a black Ford truck…and the closer it got, the faster my heart raced.
I had no idea who the driver was—but Hunter was in the passenger seat.
“Hunter?” I whispered. A part of me felt overwhelmingly relieved to see him. The other part was filled with dread. I had so many questions, but I didn’t know if I had the strength to hear the answers.
“I knew he’d come for you!” she hissed. “I knew it!”
I shook my head at my best friend. “What?”
She was smiling like a romantic fool. “I mean, I wasn’t positive, but I knew he wouldn’t let you simply run off.”
When the truck came to a stop, Hunter got out and stood there for a moment, just staring at me. He looked so damn handsome…but I could see the dark circles under his eyes from where I stood several yards away. He had on a black cowboy hat that made those blue eyes of his pop, and wore an intense expression on his face.
Every fiber in my body told me to run to him. I gripped the post on the porch to keep myself from doing so.
He took a few steps toward the house and frowned. “Why don’t you have a coat on?”
“I knew he loved you!” my bestie whispered.
I ignored her. “That’s really what you’re going to say to me first?”
“It’s freezing out here, Kip,” he replied softly, his gaze racing over my body.
“What do you want, Hunter?” I made my voice as cold and distant as I could. I hated myself for acting this way, but I was just so damn angry still! Seeing Kimber walk out of Hunter’s place had thrown me for a serious loop.
He swallowed as he looked down at the ground, then back up at me.
“I wasn’t at my house that night. After the Truth Booth, I had a few beers, then called Blayze, and he came and picked me up. I didn’t want to be alone and being filmed, and I knew I couldn’t go to my parents’ place, where I really wanted to be. We were in the ranch truck the next morning when you sped by us. I thought it was my mom at first. Dad had called early and said he’d found a camera at the house, and that’s where we were heading.”
His words slowly settled into my brain, and I swayed, clutching the post harder. “But…she was in your clothes…leaving your house.”
Hunter closed his eyes as if in pain, then opened them again. “Please…can we go inside and talk? It’s cold, and I don’t want you to get sick.”
I turned on my heels and started for the door, not bothering to wait for him.
“What about your friend?” Aspen asked when Hunter climbed the porch steps.
“He’s waiting to take me back to the airport.”
My heart felt like it tripped over itself.
“Oh. Okay,” Aspen said quietly.
We entered the house, and my mother and father appeared.
