Page 148 of Divorced from Number Thirty-Eight
“You going to fix it?”
I think of the hurt in Faye’s eyes as I walked away and pain slices through me, so intense that when I look down, I expect to see my intestines spilling out onto the bed.
Instead, I appear whole—but that’s the biggest lie I’ve ever told.
Fuck, I miss her with every breath, every heartbeat. I want to call her, beg her for another chance…
But then I think of all the ways I fucked up.
I think of her face when she heard her book was pulled.
I think of those goddamned headlines.
I think?—
“I’m thinking maybe it’s better I don’t fix it.”
“That mean you won’t care if I ask Faye out?”
I move before I realize, clamping my hand around his throat and slamming him back into the headboard. “What the fuck, Leo?”
He just smirks. “I’m guessing that’s a no.”
“Fuck you,” I snap, releasing him with a shove.
“If you don’t claim her, someone else will,” he rightfully points out.
That doesn’t make my rage at the thought of him touching my Faye, talking to her, touching her go away, though.
“Relax,” he says when I keep scowling at him, “I prefer blondes.”
I’m still seeing red. My Red. But his words pull me together enough that I remember the caterer, Harper.
Who’s blonde.
Right.
“Oh,” I mutter.
“Exactly,” he says, still smirking, totally nonplussed that I drank most of his beer, ate most of his pizza, then tried to strangle him. “Oh.”
I grind my teeth together, focus on the TV.
“Look, man. I don’t presume to know what the hell happened between you two or what you need to do to fix it or honestly, even if you should fix it, considering the media storm around you, but I’m thinking the way you reacted means that you and Faye aren’t done.”
I open my mouth.
Close it.
Because what the fuck am I going to say?
He’s right?
He is.
And he isn’t.
The thought of Faye with someone else is unfathomable. No, it’s infuriating. It makes me want to rip the TV from the wall, flip the bed, throw the lamp, to do a complete rockstar trashing of this room…and then to get on the ice tomorrow and make every single asshole on the other team pay.
