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I put her suitcase in the back, and got into the driver's seat.
"Isha?"
She didn't look at me. "Let's go," she whispered.
I drove.
It was becoming obvious to me that Isha was a mystery. One minute, she was strong as hell, the next, she was vulnerable. One minute, I was convinced she was into me, the next, I wondered if it was my money. She confused the fuck out of me.
"Are you okay?"
"Stop asking me that," she hissed.
"Answer me, and I'll stop."
"No, I'm not okay. That scene was horrible. I didn't deserve it."
No, she didn't.
"Why did Ace wink at you?"
"What?"
"When he proposed to Caitlyn, he winked at you."
She shrugged. "He brought me with him to make Caitlyn jealous, so she'd take him back."
"I thought he dumped her."
She shook her head. "She left him."
I didn't know if she was telling the truth. I knew nothing anymore.
"So, you were not dating?"
She shook her head.
"Or are you saying that because you want to fuck me?"
Her head snapped up to look at me at that. "You believe that?"
"I don't know what to believe, Isha. I'll be honest, I'm all twisted the fuck up. You behave like an innocent, and then I look at you and…"
"And what?"
"No one who looks like you doesn't trade on that."
"What century are we living in? A man is not a plan, you arsehole. I made a big mistake coming here."
"No shit." I couldn't argue with that. But Ace was my brother, and he may lie to the whole world, but I knew he wouldn't do that with me. I'd raised that little fucker, and I knew him inside and out.
She didn't speak after that, and neither did I.
She fell asleep as I drove and didn't wake up when I stopped at a gas station. She looked like a child with her cheek resting on her fist against the passenger seat window.
She was a child. Just twenty-one. But, God, she was so full of life in all the right ways. Her childhood was probably a nightmare—I couldn’t imagine otherwise. Those panic attacks came from somewhere. And, yet, she laughed her genuine laughs and connected with people.
While I drove, I called the Ledger Ranch business manager and asked him to book a hotel and a ticket for Isha.
