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I laugh. “We only met once before.”
“Which is why you got away,” he jokes.
“I wouldn’t let Reese hear you say that,” Lauren warns. “You might be big, but he’ll beat your ass.”
I step outside with Royce and Lauren still by my side. We cut right toward the sidewalk that leads to the sedan waiting on us, when suddenly I hear, “Cat Summer.”
I look toward my name to find Debbie standing in the grassy area to the left. “It’s his baby you know. Tell him to call me or I’m going to the press.” She turns and starts walking away.
I have not one second of doubt in Reese. Not one. Anger surges through me and I launch toward her. Royce grabs my arm and so does Lauren. “Debbie!” I shout.
“Cat, damn it, “Royce bites out.
She whirls around.
“You’re lying, and I’ll write about it in my column. You will not scam us. You will not extort us.”
“Be careful what you say,” she says. “Or my payday may be by way of slander.”
She turns and leaves. I double over with nausea. Royce scoops me up and starts carrying me. “Reese,” I say. “I need Reese.”
Chapter fifty-three
Cat
Ibarely remember Royce placing me in the backseat of the SUV. I’m just sitting there, my hands on my face, beside Lauren.
“We’re moving,” Savage calls out from the front as if warning me and my stomach.
“Are you okay?” Lauren asks, her hand settling on my back.
“Lauren?” I whisper, her presence really hitting me.
“I’m right here.”
“She’s ruined everything,” I whisper, turning to face her, and then it hits me that Savage is here. I can’t talk about this. But I need to talk about this.
“She hasn’t ruined anything,” Lauren says. “I know you. You won’t let her. Neither will Reese.”
“But it will always cloud this moment in our lives.”
“It won’t,” Lauren says beside me. “He didn’t do this. You know that, right? I’ve been around this man often. He is madly in love with you.”
“I don’t question Reese or who we are together, but it’s still happening,” I say. “Everything I try to make perfect is getting crushed. I wonder if he knows yet. He can’t know. He hasn’t called me.”
“Royce went to him,” she says. “Royce will handle this. How are you feeling?”
I glance toward the front of the car and back at her. “I’m fine.”
“Right. We’ll talk at your place.”
I rotate and settle against the seat. “I just need to rest my eyes.” I lower my lashes.
“We’re about to be at your door,” Savage says, because of course this time we aren’t going by Dana’s place so the drive is much quicker.
I sit back up, grab my briefcase and purse that are somehow next to me and prepare to get out of the vehicle. As soon as we are at the door, Savage calls out. “Stay where you are. I’m coming to get you.”
He’s acting like I’m about to be murdered when the crazy woman is back at the courthouse. That idea jolts me. “Do we have eyes on Debbie? She can’t get to Reese and hurt him, right?”
