Page 17 of Sinner's Vow

Chapter Six

KENNEDY

My brain was tripping,over and over again, on this new information.

The night Noah and I met, he told me that he had gotten someone pregnant. He told me it was a bad situation and it was someone he shouldn’t have been involved with.

He told me how the woman went and got an abortion. He’d told her he would take care of the baby. But she had wanted him to marry her and he’d said it wasn’t right because they didn’t love each other. So, as revenge, at least from my perspective, she went and got an abortion.

What Noah never told me that night, was that the woman was Gina. Their fucking PR manager. The woman who’s been traveling along with the band this entire tour.

A woman Noah is forced to work in proximity with, constantly, because of both their careers.

She fucking destroyed Noah. She destroyed his peace of mind. Because of her and her decision, he spiraled into depression. I know it now. Noah has been drowning in depression, and instead of going to ask a doctor or a therapist for help, he started taking uppers to try and feel something good. And he’s been messing up his life ever since.

And it was Gina all along.

I can barely look at the woman before the show starts. I want to rip her eyes out. I want to pull every strand of hair from her slick bun and make her eat it. I want to kick her in the shins and smack her.

No wonder she’s been such a bitch to me since Tori made me go on this tour.

She’s had her eyes on Noah for years, and I’m the woman Noah said yes to after one day.

She’ll get no sympathy from me though.

I glare darkly at her when it’s time for the duet. Acid is building inside of me, and I barely keep it contained until our song is over.

I wish this realization hadn’t happened now. Because as I get on stage, something is different with Noah.

He seems…happy.

Lighter.

Something has shifted since this morning, and I just want to be present for it.

But I can’t.

Not while Gina is back there in the shadows, and I know what she did, what she’s hidden from everyone involved with Sinner’s Run.

So as soon as Promises To You is over, I give Noah a smile. It falls away the second I turn away from him, and through the dark, my eyes find Gina’s.

I stalk off stage, and I don’t even slow as I step in front of her. I grip her by the front of her shirt and yank her after me.

“You and I need to talk,” I growl.

“What the hell?” she shrieks, trying to smack my hand away, but I tighten my grip. I aim for the door out the side and drag her out. “Kennedy, get your greedy little fingers off of me.”

“Greedy?” I growl as I shove her back against a black car waiting at the curb. “You’ve been keeping secrets for months and you’re going to sit and call me names?”

“What are you going on about?” she asks, her eyes narrowing.

I pull the car door open and if I could kill her with my eyes, I would. “Get in the car. You and I are going to talk.”

Her eyes narrow at me darkly, but without another word, she steps around me and gets inside. I climb in beside her and yank the door shut. I tell the driver the name of the hotel we’re staying at and he pulls away from the curb.

Gina and I glare at each other, but here, trapped with a stranger, neither of us says a word. People are always listening. They’re always paying attention when it comes to celebrities. I’m not going to expose any of Noah’s secrets here where this man could listen in and sell them to any tabloid.

So, it’s a heat-filled, silent five-minute ride to the hotel.

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