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Oh. My. God.
“Six…years?” I stammer. No. No. No!
“Yep,” she says casually, like she hasn’t just detonated a bomb five seconds before I’m supposed to walk into a war zone. I feel like I can’t breathe and I’m wondering if all of this is worth it. What if I just walk out of here and never come back? Okay, I suppose that’s job abandonment, but maybe Chris, or Mr. Holt would understand. Now that we can add infidelity to the list of infractions, I’m sure he’s even less excited about me being here.
I’m contemplating this when the door opens and I’m face to face with the guy who I told myself to forget about but have thought about nonstop for three months.
I’d been hurt. Spent three months rationalizing the fact that he disappeared and never tried to contact me.
But now I know the truth.
He’s MARRIED?
Oh, I am pissed.
“Miss Collins, please come in.” He says, extending his arm into his office and I enter, wanting to scream but realizing that may be the fastest way to get fired.
He closes the door behind me and when I turn around, he gives me a look that probably matches the look on my face. Despite the anger building inside me, I can’t deny how good he looks in his gray suit. Maybe Armani? Or Tom Ford? Zegna? It looks expensive. His hair is a little wilder than it was at the wedding, some of it falling a bit over those gorgeous blue eyes that I can see vividly in my dreams.
“What are you doing here?” he says, his words hard but low and my mouth drops open because why the hell is he asking me that?
“Excuse me?” I cross my hands over my chest and watch as his eyes zip to the movement before moving back up to meet my gaze. I narrow my eyes at him as if to say don’t even think about it.
“Did you ask Alexis where to find me?” he asks as he breezes by me and leans up against his desk, his brows furrowed and his entire posture tense and combative.
“No? I was just as surprised to see you here. And for the record if I had told Alexis about that night, which I absolutely did not, don’t you think she would have told me that you were married?!” I snap, raising an eyebrow at him. “Surely would have saved me the shock of learning about it from your assistant twenty seconds ago.”
His face falls and he lets his head drop before letting out a sigh that makes it seem like his whole body is exhausted. One of those sighs you let out when you feel like you’ve got the entire weight of the world on your shoulders and you just want a reprieve from all of it.
“I’m sorry,” he says still staring at the ground, like he can’t even meet my eyes.
I narrow my eyes at him. “You have a lot of things to be sorry for; you’re going to need to be more specific.”
“Everything.” He finally looks up at me. “I shouldn’t have…that night.”
I swallow and take a deep breath in and out through my nose, doing my best to quell my anger. “You weren’t wearing a ring.”
“I took it off.”
I scoff and shake my head, disgusted. “So, you went out with the intention to cheat?”
“You don’t get it.”
My lips form a straight tight line. “I surely do not.” My tone is clipped.
Anger flashes across his face. “You don’t have the right to judge me.”
“You stuck your dick inside of me without telling me you had a wife at home and then left me in your hotel room without so much as a goodbye, I have a fuck ton of rights,” I retort. He has got to be joking.
“I left a note,” he says, like that makes everything better.
“Which was honestly worse than not saying anything.” I swallow, fighting the tears because I refuse to spend any more time being upset about him. “That was the shittiest thing anyone has ever done to me.”
He narrows his eyes in sadness. “I’m so sorry. Holly started calling—”
“Ahhh.” I put a hand up, my blood starting to boil upon hearing his wife’s name. “Please do not try to explain, it will only make it worse.”
“My marriage isn’t…” He lets out a breath. “We aren’t happy.”
