Page 83 of Dominate Me

But, he had to go see to something? We were supposed to spend the night together.

“What stuff do you have to do?” I asked.

He tossed back the rest of his drink and slid toward the door. “The last time someone threw Courtney over the edge she tried to kill herself. What Meredith said tonight...what she did...I can’t think about your misgivings until I can make sure she’s okay.”

A bucket of ice dumped over my head couldn’t have made me shiver more. “You’re leaving me, for Courtney?”

My words were harsher, more accusing than I meant them, but it was too late to take them back.

It was too late to take any of it back.

His jaw tightened. “The driver will take you home.” He barely spared me a glance as he opened the door and climbed out. “I’ll call a cab.”

The door shut and I sat there, staring at him through glass where he couldn’t see me back, but as the car shifted into gear and we pulled out of the alley, Jensen didn’t stop watching me drive away from him until we’d turned the corner and disappeared.

He had left me.

For Courtney.

His ex-partner.

And I had royally screwed, everything up.

Potentially permanently.

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