AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Harper stares back at him in disbelief, her expression almost amused.
“Evan, you literally cheated on me. Whilst we were engaged. With mysister.”
“Everyone makes mistakes, Harper!” Then he slides his eyes up to me and adds on, “Evidently.”
I breathe out a laugh and give him a tight smile.
“You know what else would be a mistake?” I say quietly. “Continuing this conversation.”
“You think I wouldn’t be able to take you?” he sneers, the reality of the situation making his neck turn red. “I gym, like, every day.”
I almost smile. He’s leaner than a French fry and a short guy at around five-ten. It would be borderline unethical for me to fight him.
But if push came to shove I know that his skull would split like a walnut with one crunch of my bicep.
I say nothing, hoping that it’ll encourage him to handle this situation like a man, apologise to Harper, and then get the fuck away from us.
He eases up a little but then refocuses his attention on Harper.
“You really want some sort of small town nobody?” he asks her, and this time I actually do laugh out loud.
Harper looks up at me, worried that I’ll be angry, but I give her a reassuring smile.
I transmit her a message:it’s no biggie.
She smiles up at me and then turns back to her ex.
“I forgive you for what you did to me, but you can’t talk about my loved ones like that. He’s not a nobody.”
Evan narrows his eyes on Harper and smirks. “Without me,you’rea nobody.”
Suddenly I feel completely fine about breaking this guy’s neck, my fingers flexing and tightening around Harper’s hips. But she saves me the prison sentence with the best comeback that I’ve ever heard.
She flashes a smirk of her own and whispers back to him, “I’m the nobody who made you a somebody.”
When I hear the gasps around us I finally realise that we’ve gathered an audience. I’m pretty sure that the entire cast and crew is here, clutching champagne flutes in front of their dropped jaws.
Harper notices the crowd a second after I do and she looks up at me, silently telling me that she wants to go now.
I nod down at her, determined to wrap this up, but her ex is putting on the performance of his life, desperate to get the last word.
“Harper, don’t be stupid. What use to you is a fucking six-foot-two gorilla?”
Harper narrows her eyes on him and clutches at me tighter.
“He’s six-foot-three,” she snarls.
I decide not to tell them that I’m actually six-four.
“I know you aren’t going to throw away two whole years together, Harper. And he can’t be that special because your finger’s still bare.”
That’s the final straw.
“Listen up,” I say to him, done with this conversation.
He looks up at me expectantly and I try not to smirk down at him, Harper’s soft hair brushing beneath my chin as she turns slightly, placing her hands over mine.
“You may have put one diamond on her finger but I’ve already put ten around her neck. She’s had it better from me in two months than she had from you in twoyears. Ever heard the phrase ‘put your money where your mouth is’? Where I’m from you either put up or shut up. It’s time for you to do the latter.”
