Total pages in book: 61
Estimated words: 60940 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 305(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 203(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 60940 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 305(@200wpm)___ 244(@250wpm)___ 203(@300wpm)
“It only happened once.” Hazel stood in front of me.
“It may have only been one night, but let’s not forget, sugar. I spent most of the time inside you.”
“You son of a bit—”
“Stop it!” Hazel demanded. “This is ridiculous. You both need to calm the hell down. Nothing will get worked out if you’re both acting this way. We’re not together. I don’t even like him.”
Just to prove my fucking point, I moved her aside, stepping right back into his face. “She’s full of shit.”
“You shameless fuck!” Chance barked. “I trusted you, man! I don’t know you at all, do I? Because the man I thought I knew would’ve never betrayed me with my own family!”
“For fuck’s sake, Chance! What do you want from me? I can’t lie to you anymore.”
“How am I supposed to get past this?”
“I never wanted to do this to you. It’s why we’re in this situation to begin with.”
“You’re blaming me for you knocking her up? How long were you lying to me? How long were you fucking my twin sister?”
“She’s not lying! We haven’t seen—”
“So that makes it okay? Every woman you come across is just another fuck to you, and you expect me to believe she’s any different?”
“Chance! Enough! Now!” Hazel pleaded, standing in front of him with her back to me. “Please just calm down.”
“Calm down?! You want me to calm down when you spread your legs for my best friend and let him come inside you like you’re just another one of his whores?”
Before the last word left his mouth, my fist connected with his jaw, sending him flying back against the wall.
Hazel’s stare went wide. “Oh my God!” She snapped around. “What the fuck is that going to solve?”
I pointed at him. “He won’t talk to you that way. Do you understand me?”
Chance shoved his sister out of the way, standing in front of me again.
“Chance, please!” she begged in a desperate tone that shook my entire body to the core.
His glare flew to her. “Fuck him!”
“Chance, stop! Please!”
“Does he know, Hazel?”
“Don’t do this!” she urged.
My eyes shifted to her. “Do I know what?”
He didn’t stop. “I can’t believe you haven’t told him.”
“Chance, stop it!” she pressed.
I was at my wits’ end. “What the hell are you talking about?”
“Chance, don’t—”
“Oh! So your fuck buddy has no idea!”
“Don’t look at her, look at me,” I ordered, and he did.
He eyed me up and down, making all the air from my lungs vanish for a much different reason when he declared…
“You don’t know she’s engaged?”
Thirteen
Ledger
“What the fuck is he talking about?” I snarled.
She stared at me with wide eyes.
Her chest rose and fell while she was frozen in place.
“Hazel.” I stepped toward her. “I won’t ask you again.”
She lifted her ring finger in the air. “I’m not engaged.” Glaring at her brother for a second, she shifted her gaze back to me. “At least not anymore.”
In two strides, I was in her face.
“Were you engaged the night—”
“No! I’m not a cheater, Ledger. I’d never do that.”
“Then what the fuck is going on?”
“It’s complicated.”
“I want you to look me in the eyes and uncomplicate it for me.” When she didn’t respond fast enough, I demanded, “Now!”
She jolted. “I don’t know what you want me to say.”
“I want the truth.”
Chance sought out, “You heard your baby daddy, Hazel. How about you explain it to both of us because I can’t keep up with your love life any more than he can.”
“Oh my God. This has nothing to do with me being pregnant.”
I didn’t pay her any mind. My focus was still on her being engaged at one point.
She mirrored my stance, standing taller. “I don’t owe any explanation for my personal life, Ledger. Regardless of what you think, I owe you nothing.”
I growled from deep within my chest, not backing down. “I’m only going to say this once, so you better fucking listen. If you think another man will raise my kid, then you have no idea who you’re dealing with.”
“Let me remind you that we’re not a couple, and I’m free to be with anyone I choose. Now or in the future.”
“I’ll take you to court before another man—”
“You fucking asshole! I swear to God, Ledger, I’ll—”
“You’ll what? Tell me, sweetheart, what will you do?”
“You have no right to be angry with me! I didn’t do anything wrong! You’re the reason we’re in this mess. You couldn’t just leave well enough alone. You had to approach me at the bar?”
“I didn’t know it was you until you were already in my arms.”
Chance chimed in, “So you ran into each other at a bar?”
She immediately turned to glare at her brother. “Yeah, Chance. But since you’re so adamant about knowing everything about my life, let me break it down for you.”
“Hazel—”
She interrupted me. “The night before I left for New York, I threw myself at your best friend. In this very bedroom to be exact. It was during his graduation party. I waited for him on that bed.” She nodded to it. “Would you like to know what I was wearing?”