Total pages in book: 148
Estimated words: 135517 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 678(@200wpm)___ 542(@250wpm)___ 452(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 135517 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 678(@200wpm)___ 542(@250wpm)___ 452(@300wpm)
Now there was all this history between us, most of it not so good in the last five years. But I’d told myself over this past week that we had eight very good years together, and that should trump the bad. Yeah, because I was thinking out of my ass when I came up with that one.
“We’re here. We’ll wait out here for a bit if you want, just in case. Or you can call us to come get you if things go south.” “No, if anything, I’ll find my way back. You probably shouldn’t park the car back here too long, even though I doubt anyone would see it.”
It was late and dark, and the nearest neighbor was a good distance away, but with my luck, someone would come along at the worst time. I’m not sure how they got rid of the paparazzi that had taken up residence outside my gate, but I’m pretty sure Saunders had something to do with it. Either the father or the son.
“You sure you’re ready?” Oh, so now Zak wanted to play human? “Yeah, I don’t have a choice, do I?” They knew just as well as me why it had to be tonight. I could probably put it off for a few more days, but I wasn’t willing to take the chance. Things had taken an unexpected turn in the last few days that I don’t think any of us saw coming.
I was so caught up in finally getting things headed in the right direction that I hadn’t been able to think of anything else, just biding my time until I got the green light and avoiding Janie as much as I could while pretending that I was really going to move into a new house with her.
Since the day I got her to sign the papers, I'd lucked out with excuse after excuse. I knew after that that she’d expect me to climb into her bed, which was never going to happen, but the guys had helped me keep her on the hook with lies about needing to study my lines.
The only lines I’d been studying was what to say to Elena when we finally met. It was killing me this whole time to stay away, especially when she started going out almost every night as if to rub it in my face that my song didn’t mean a damn thing to her. Little does she know I meant every word.
It’s only because I knew she went home alone each night that I’d been able to stay away, but still, I was over it. Over having to stay away from her, over having the world think that she was available. Zak and Tyler had talked me down a time or two from going after her beau of the hour and breaking his damn legs, whoever he was.
The one that almost pushed me over the edge was the last one that she’d gone out with tonight. He was someone from our past, someone I always worried about being too close to her but was told more than once that there was nothing there.
I was looking for a way to get out of the house and knew for a fact that they’d have stopped me again, but I was more than a little bit surprised when they agreed that it was time to make my move. Before that, they kept telling me to wait, something I was sure had more to do with their reason for being here than my own situation.
But tonight, they agreed that I should go, and their reasons for that had damn near sent me into cardiac arrest. I think it was the first time I truly realized just what I had gotten myself into. The first time I saw the true face of the monster I had married.
I didn’t believe it at first when they showed me the transcript of the call they’d intercepted between Janie, her dad, and Matt, but there was no reason for these guys to lie to me and the way Janie had been acting; I wouldn’t put it past her, or her dad. Even though I never expected them to go this far.
Finding out that the man I called my spiritual advisor, the man I’d trusted with so much of me, was a snake was something I don’t think I will ever get over, though. Elena had tried to warn me, even I had come to have my suspicions, but this was going beyond anything I could’ve imagined. It’s as if everything in my life for the past five years has been a lie.
“You’ve gotta go, kid. Or we could go with the other thing, and one of us can tell her.” “No.” It was mine to do. I was the one who’d brought this mess to her door. The one who’d got in bed with these vipers even though she’d tried to warn me.