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He looked over to her, and she glowered back at him.
“You’re cheating on me,” she told him, voice icy-cold. “With Kimmy.”
He didn’t even deny it, knowing there was no point in trying to defend himself now. He had just managed to all but ruin his entire life in one fell swoop. It would have almost been funny, if it wasn’t so pathetic. He’d had everything he wanted, but he had gone looking for more, and it had all come catching up to him in the same night. Must have been a rough one.
She turned on her heel and marched back inside the house—and I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, that she was wearing the bracelet I had given her. I grinned. Had he noticed it? Wondered about it? I hoped he had. I hoped he had been tearing himself up over it since the moment he saw it. A reminder of how much more she deserved than this shitbag.
Kieran was still holding Aaron, who looked more confused than ever. Probably wondering why his fiancée was fine with me being here. I wished I could tell him I’d kissed her, but I didn’t want to reveal it in front of Kieran—if it got back to my father somehow, I was sure he would find another way to turn it against me.
I slammed my fist into his gut, and he gasped and doubled over, his face going red from the pain.
“I don’t think you’ve got much to look forward to now anyway,” I sneered at him. “She’s not going to put up with your shit anyone. You just lost a good woman, and you have to live with it.”
He looked up at me, eyes aching with sadness, and I almost felt sorry for him. Until I remembered he’d brought this all on himself, stupid fucker.
“But you still owe us our money,” I warned him. “And my father doesn’t take well to waiting.”
I crammed a card into his hand, a reminder of where he could contact us when he needed to. He stuffed it into his pocket, still half doubled over from the shot I had just taken at him.
“Good luck,” I remarked, and I glanced back at the house one more time before I walked off. Whatever he had to deal with now was going to be worse than what I had put him through.
Because he was about to lose the woman of every man’s dreams.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Amber
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IHEARD AARON GROANINGon the couch downstairs, and I figured the only way to put this to bed once and for all was to get him patched up and out of here.
I didn’t want to wake up another day with him in the house. In fact, watching Josh leave was way harder than watching Aaron get hurt—maybe I wanted to do a little of it myself, given what I had just found out, but honestly, it was nothing more than a confirmation of what I already knew.
It was Kimmy’s betrayal that really hurt, even though I would never have admitted it. Some part of me knew what Josh had been doing behind my back, even if I didn’t want to accept the reality of it, but here I was, with no other choice but to look it straight in the eye.
And his gambling addiction...okay, that really did come as a shock. I had guessed he wasn’t at work when he had spun all those lies to me before, but even still, I hadn’t expected it to bethis. He had always seemed so pulled-together, or maybe that was just an act. My mind drifted to all the games he told me he played. Were some of them gambling? Was he throwing away his money?
