Page 104 of Heartbreaker

“I’m Jade Cantrell.” She sticks out her hand.

Amber doesn’t shake it, just wrinkles her nose slightly as she eyes her up and down. Then she glances back at me. “You’re dating country bumpkins now?”

“Classic, Amber,” I snap, drawing Jade closer. “Spreading your venom everywhere.” I meet Jade’s eyes. “Let’s go.”

She nods, but her feet don’t move.

Instead, she glares over at Amber.

“You had the most precious gift in the world,” she says, “and you squandered it.”

My heart pulses.

But I don’t have time to respond to that, to kiss her, to tell her what that means to me.

Because Amber splashes some more of that venom around.

“Ah, there you are, baby,” she croons and I watch as she plasters herself against—fucking hell, is that Tony Blackthorn? She kisses him with enough tongue that Banks makes a sound of disgust from next to me. “I was just telling them the good news.”

I don’t bite.

She wants me to know, wants to fuck with me, wants to hurt me.

“About the baby?” he asks, smoothing his hand over Amber’s still flat stomach.

I go still, that cold sliding down my spine again.

We were trying for a baby when she…

I grind my teeth together.

When sheleft.

“Congrats,” I mutter. “I’m sure you’ll be great parents.” My sarcasm is about as evident as her venom, and I know she clocks it because her eyes narrow and her cold ass smile spreads. Butbefore she can retort, Tony tugs her against him and proceeds to shove his tongue down her throat.

“Gross,” Jade whispers.

“I wasn’tjusttelling them about the baby,” Amber says coyly after they finally break apart.

That snaps me out of it, and I turn to the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with—and in case anyone is wondering, that’s sure as shitnotthe woman who was tongue fucking a sleezy guitar player with a rap sheet a mile long and a trail of NDAs signed in his wake.

It’s Jade.

“Let’s go,” I tell her again.

She nods and we turn to leave.

But Amber’s not done with us yet.

“Oh Royal, darling…”

My stomach sinks, but I start walking,keepwalking, even though her next words are a vicious blow that nearly takes me to my knees.

“Don’t you want to meet the new guitarist of Midnight Sun?”

CHAPTER THIRTY

Jade

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