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Sinking to the floor, my knees hit the rug with a thud and I fall forward. I sob into my hands until they’re wet with my tears again. Everett has no idea how much I need him to stay, or how much I wanted to tell him, but I couldn’t. The right words wouldn’t fall from my mouth. Everything my heart was telling me to do, my head was saying the opposite. It’s like having an angel and a devil sitting on each shoulder, bickering between themselves.
Margie has to be doing all of this for a reason, I just need to find out why. Scrubbing my palms over my skirt and getting rid of the moisture that’s covering them, I pull myself up and sit with my back against the couch, pulling my knees up against my chest. Wrapping my arms around them, I rest my chin on top. I try to think back at what I could’ve done to her to make her act this way. I’ve done nothing but be nice to her. The biggest thing of all—I trusted her. Surely that can’t be made into something bad. No, this goes further back, it has to. But to where?
Dragging myself up, I get my cell and call Hayden. I have to tell him Margie’s not the person he thinks she is. If anything happens to my brother, I’ll cut a bitch. He’s gone through enough.
When he doesn’t answer, I hang up. I can’t tell him over text. I’ll have to try later on. Ruby is next on the list. She’ll help me. She’s like a bloodhound when it comes to digging up information. I’ll clean myself up, then call her.
But like she has a crystal ball and knows that I need her, my cell rings in my hand. I sniff back my emotions and attempt to hold everything in as I swipe across my screen and lift my cell to my ear sitting down.
“Hey bitch, wassup?” I hear her voice and as much as I want to smile and be upbeat, my voice breaks.
“Depends. You okay?”
“Yeah. Make sure you’re at home tonight, because I’m coming over. I have some good shit to tell you.”
“I have shit to tell you too.”
“Okay, I’ll bring wine.”
I smile at Ruby’s good sense, and once I’ve hung up, I turn my cell off again. Throwing it back onto the couch, I drop my forehead to my knees.
I’m not sure how long I’ve been sitting there, but I do know my ass is numb. I move onto my knees and plant my hands on the couch to act as my crutch and help myself up. I need to get out of these clothes and take a shower. I want to wash the events of the day away. In a crazy way I was hoping that everything that had happened today was just a figment of my overactive imagination and maybe my mind had played a trick on me, and none of this had really happened.
No such luck though.
Margie’s smug grin and Everett’s broken expression when I sent him away earlier keep popping back into my head, and then I feel like shit all over again.
I need Ruby.
I drag my lazy ass up and go to the bedroom, stripping off as I go, leaving a trail of clothes behind me. I don’t fucking care about the mess. Other than Ruby, no one will see it.
It wasn’t long after I got out of the shower that Ruby arrived. Opening the front door, she holds up a grocery store bag of wine.
“Two?”
“One for reserves. I wasn’t sure how much you’d need this when I tell you what I’ve found out.
“You know I love you, right?”
My best friend looks closely at me and frowns. “You look like shit. Come on, babe. Let’s grab a glass and you can tell me why you look like you’ve been dragged through a bush.”
While she goes into the kitchen, I go into the living room and drop down on the floor in front of the couch.
“Red or white?” Ruby shouts from the kitchen.
“Red.”
Armed with two glasses and a bottle of cabernet, she uncorks it and sits next to me on the floor, putting the bottle and glasses down on the coffee table.
Wrapping my fingers around the neck of the bottle, I pour some into both of our glasses. It makes a glugging noise as it leaves the mouth of the bottle. I’m mesmerized and can’t tear my eyes away. At this point she’s lucky I’m even using a glass.
“Okay. First, what has happened since I saw you last and now.”
“I found out my assistant is seeing my brother and I then caught the same assistant in a very compromising position with my boyfriend. Oh, and I’ve been suspended too.”
“You fucking what?” Ruby explodes.
“My life is probably over.”
