Page 3 of Tell Me Again
“Her mother.” He spat out those two words with a bitter laugh. “Should I have broken her heart with the knowledge that her mother stayed straight only long enough to give birth to her? She dumped Grace with me as soon as the hospital released her, signed over custody the very next morning.”
Sam held up a hand, as if unwilling, even years later, to hear the truth of the kind of person her twin had been. “Iwould never have abandoned her that way.”
He arched a brow in response.
“Screw you,” she whispered.
He stalked toward her so fast she didn’t have time to back away. “We both know I wasn’t good enough for you. Your sister was the one willing to stoop to my level. It’s how we got in this mess in the first place.”
The words were meant to make her mad, and by the way her eyes flared he could tell they hit their mark. Good. Anger he could take, but the wounded vulnerability that had lit her gaze a moment earlier was too much.
He was the one who’d ended up hurt, abandoned, and tossed aside, then left to pick up the pieces. He’d survived, cobbling together a life for the daughter now hidden from him in this house.
And, for Trevor, Grace was all that mattered.
