Page 67 of Unforeseen Love

“What are you doing here?” I ask, unable to keep the disdain from my voice as I gently place the pet carrier down.

Sienna appears from behind her and squeezes past. For someone who is naturally fair, she looks almost white now.

“I’ll leave you two to it,” she says, her voice small and so unlike Sienna.

She moves past me, but I grab her elbow and shake my head once.

“No, you stay,” I say, harder than I intend.

Her eyes grow a shade darker as she pulls away from my touch as though it physically hurts.

“Yeah, I don’t think so,” she says, going into her room.

Orla says something, but I ignore her and instead follow Sienna and shut her door behind us as she stomps around her room, grabbing her purse and keys.

“What are you doing?” I ask, not sure why she’s so fucking angry.

Marching over to me, she pokes me in the chest, hard, with her index finger. “I’m going out. I do not need to see your reunion with yourgirlfriend.”

I’d laugh if her expression wasn’t so serious. “She is not my girlfriend,” I grit out.

She arches her eyebrows. “Yeah, well, that’s not what she said,” she whisper-shouts, pointing towards her closed bedroom door.

“She’s a fucking sociopath.”

Sienna shakes her head. “Well, that might be the case, but according toher,you’re still together and just on a break.”

What the fuck?

I clench my fists at my sides. “And you believe herover me? Someone you’ve never met until now?”

She throws her hands up in the air. “I don’t know what to believe. I’m not stupid. I’ve seen the missed calls and how you send her to voicemail. Do you think I’m stupid? I just thought that at some point you’d tell me about her. But it’s not like it’s any of my business. I mean, we’re just fucking, right?”

I take a step back. “You’re not serious? Do you think I’d bother taking you on a date if you were just a fuck?”

Her cheeks are flushed as she goes to move past me.

“What, you’re just going to walk away and not even give me a chance to explain?”

Her eyes are cold when they meet mine. “Explain how you’ve been leading her on, or how you’ve been leading me on.”

I literally cannot believe this is even happening right now.

“You know what, you’re being ridiculous.”

She points to herself. “So, you’re telling me that if it were a guy turning up telling you him and I were on a break, you’d be perfectly okay with that?”

I let out an exasperated huff. “I’d give you the benefit of the doubt. Let you explain.”

Sienna reaches for the doorknob, but I slam my hand against the door, putting my weight into it.

“Do you know what, Sienna? You’re full of shit. You’re just using this as an excuse because you know how fucking good we are together, and that scares you.”

She pulls at the door, but it won’t budge.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

My entire body is coiled tight, my adrenaline rolling in thick waves. “I do because it scares me too, how you make me feel. Do you know what? You said your biggest fear was dying, but it’s living, because you hide behind a death mask every day and you’ve forgotten what it’s like to truly live.”

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