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I want him to step up. I want him to say he’s willing to try.
“We’ll still see this through, the job?”
“Yes, Ryder. We will. I’m a professional.”
“Good.”
“Great.”
Silence stretches thin and cold.
“That it, Elliot?”
“Yes. You’re not about to change, Ryder. Are you?”
I want him to say yes. I want him to give me the keys back and offer me the world.
Actually, no. I don’t want the world. Just him.
I want him to say he’s not going, that this isn’t the end.
I want him to say he loves me.
But he doesn’t.
Ryder steps back. “No. I don’t change, Elliot. Not in the long term. And you don’t need to see it through to the end.” He tosses the keys and catches them. “I think I got this.”
“You’ll let me just go?”
“Yes.” He half takes another step, but stops. “And you? You’ll let me take the keys and walk out the door.”
“I gave them to you.”
“Fine. Goodbye, Elliot.”
Ryder turns and walks out the door, shattering my heart in to a million, bleeding pieces.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Ryder
“Go away, King, I’m not in the mood.”
My brother looks me up and down, frowning. It’s been a day since I parted ways with Elliot and when I say I’m not in the mood, I mean it.
“Well aren’t you the bundle of joy. How did the last board meeting go?”
King pushes past me and into my loft, looking about.
I sigh. “Fine. Jenson told me privately it’s in the bag.”
“Jenson said that?” He raises a brow.
“He didn’t use those words. But the family company is saved, so you lot can work out who won the bet. I lost the girl, and you’ll be getting your letter on your birthday.”
“That’s a few months away. I’m thinking of hiring someone to look into it, the jewels, I mean, find out what they can. Because I’m not really willing to jump through hoops.” He moves into the living room and helps himself to a drink from the bar. “It’s after five and it’s been a long fucking day.”
“It’s been a long fucking four weeks,” I mutter, rubbing my chest where this thing inside burns from the whole blow out with Elliot.
