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“How?”

“I want you to hang up this phone, go to wherever he is right now and say tell me about your ex-girlfriend and why you thought you had to keep it from me.”

“It isn’t that easy.”

“Piss off Jenna, it is that easy. Don’t make me come out there and kick your ass. Seize the day woman. Does he make you happy?”

“Yes,” I say quietly.

“Is the sex good?”

“Iz,” I cry out. She laughs. “Don’t ask me stuff like that.”

“I’ll take that as a yes. I’m confident you will be able to read him whatever his answer is. If he is an asshole you’ll know and I’ll expect you back. But what if he isn’t? I want a full report by the end of the day and I expect Tina will be doing a little more work over the next couple of days. Go. Talk to him. I’ll speak to you soon, doll.” She hangs up on me.

I drop the phone to the sand between my feet. I can’t believe what happened between her and Ada. It’s insane, they are two of the most in love people I’d ever come across. She makes a lot of sense and is right, since I got here I have lost something of myself. If it was anyone else I wouldn’t stand for this. I’d want to know why he didn’t tell me about her.

“Jenna?” I look up to Adam behind me. “You’ve been out here a while. Everything okay?”

I pat the sand. He sits down next to me. I face the situation and his eyebrows shoot up when I speak. “I know about Erica.”

Chapter Twenty-Four

My heart jumps into my throat. Shit, my mind darts everywhere, who told her? I’m gonna kill someone. Oh fuck what must she be thinking? I should have told her myself. She looks pissed. Fuck.

“Don’t have a heart attack, Adam,” she frowns at me. “Seriously, are you spazzing out?”

“No,” I clear my throat. What the fuck was I supposed to say. She shakes her head at me and looks out onto the water. “What exactly do you know?”

“Everything,” she says, her arms wrap around her legs. Who the hell was she on the phone too? I’m going to have to kick someone’s ass for this.

“When I was in the bathroom yesterday, two women came in and I overheard them talking about how you threw a fit at the meeting about her being on the tour, then they talked about how you were the Golden couple and you lived together.”

Shit, shit, shit. I can’t think of anything to say. I’ve got nothing to hide, not now at least, but I had the opportunity to tell her yesterday and I didn’t.

“I know you said don’t Google you, but I came across some stuff about the two of you.”

“It was over three years ago, Jenna.”

“I know,” she finally looks at me. “I’m not mad about you having a relationship with someone, Adam. We both have a past and as much as I’ve struggled with yours, I can accept that there have been other women. Lots of women,” she gives me a sideways glance.

“I never lied about that, Jenna.”

“But you were in love with this one. You lived together and when I asked you about her yesterday you didn’t tell me. I had to come back here alone, knowing she was there with you, having heard those women say the likelihood of you getting back with her on the tour was pretty much a given.”

My pulse throbs. I’m so fucking angry. Who the hell were those bitches? I remember seeing Bianca’s niece heading down towards the bathroom yesterday. She saw my reaction when I confronted Bianca before the meeting, and she was there in the meeting.

“That isn’t gonna happen Jenna. I have no intention of getting back with her. I don’t love her and haven’t since we split. I didn’t want to hurt you by telling you about her.”

She lowers her eyes. I suddenly realise how sick she was yesterday and that it had to do with hearing second hand about Erica. Fucking hell. I did that. “I should have told you.”

“Damn right you should have told me,” she scowls. “I sat here yesterday like a fucking lovesick teenager worrying about it, feeling used and scared and wanting to go home and that makes me angry, Adam. I don’t like feeling like that, it’s not who I am. Do I need to remind you what I do to guys who hurt and piss me off?”

“I have an idea,” I shake my head and my lip twitches a little. She’s looking right at me and I definitely should not be smiling right now. I’m expecting her to blow her lid on me but she doesn’t, she goes quiet and now I’m not sure if that is worse than her being angry and shouting at me. “We were together for two years,” I need to be honest. “She got a job overseas and we tried to do long distance, it didn’t work. I saw her once after she left, I flew to Paris to see her and thought everything was fine. Then I found out she was seeing someone else. She didn’t have the guts to tell me in person, she broke up with me by a text.”

Jenna looks at me and I can see the softness in her eyes, hearing how Erica treated me.

“I won’t lie, Jenna, it fucked me up for a while. I did some stupid shit after, some of the stuff you’ve read about me. But I don’t have feelings for her. I reacted like a fucking idiot yesterday, wanting her off the tour but it was just the shock of seeing her again.”

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