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Aria reached for her bag. “Give me my stuff.”
“You can’t go out there,” Grant said. “It’s dangerous.”
“No, it’s dangerous if I’m still associated with you, right? Don’t worry, Grant, I’ll be fine because we’re not together anymore.”
“Aria, fuck, this is not … I’m not that person, at all. I don’t hate you, I swear it. None of what I said was true. None of it. I … I fucking love you, Aria.”
He wouldn’t give her the bag and Aria stumbled back a little at his confession. She shook her head. How could she believe that? Turning on her heel, she headed for the gates.
Grant rushed toward her, wrapping his arms around her, and pulling her in close. Aria tried to fight him.
“I get that you hate me right now and you can do it, but please don’t go. Do not walk through those gates. He will not care that you no longer want me, Aria. Fuck, do not fucking go.”
Chapter Fifteen
Grant kept his distance for the next week. Aria didn’t leave the clubhouse, but then, if it hadn’t been for Maddie and Bull coming outside, he had a feeling she would have left.
Sitting at the bar, he kept his gaze on the main door leading up to the bedrooms. Aria was now staying in Pat’s room. As for Pat, he was sleeping wherever he wanted to crash.
Fucking Pat. First his VP patch, now Aria.
Grant wanted a drink so badly, but he didn’t want to mix his temper with alcohol. That wouldn’t be the greatest way to deal with his problems.
“How are you doing?” Bull asked, coming to sit beside him at the bar.
“Fine.”
“You’ve spent most of your time staring at a door the past couple of days,” Bull said.
“Wouldn’t you do it with Maddie?”
“I have done it.” Bull sighed. “So she’s the real deal then. Aria, she’s the one you love.”
“Yeah, she is,” Grant said. “More than anything else in the world.” He sipped at his coffee and even though it was scorching hot, it was not giving him the burn of alcohol he fucking wanted.
Everything had gone so fucking wrong in such a short space of time. He had every intention of telling Aria the truth, in time. Possibly when she was pregnant, post-orgasm, and kind of just sliding it in as a revelation that didn’t mean anything. He didn’t have a fucking clue how he was going to tell her.
“So, she found out the truth.”
“Yes, in an anonymous fucking video,” Grant said.
Grant thought back to that day—the meeting he had with Miguel. Aria couldn’t leave, not until they sorted out the Miguel problem.
He tapped his fingers on the tabletop and then pulled Aria’s cell phone out of his pocket. She had left it on the dining room table last night. She didn’t have the thing locked and he was able to scroll through all the messages. Aria’s main contact was Lidia, her best friend.
Grant clicked his tongue and then sent off a quick message to Lidia saying that he’d snuck out of the clubhouse and they were to meet around the back of the veterinary practice.
Maddie came out of the kitchen with Lindsey on her hip, giving the perfect distraction for Bull. Finishing off his coffee, he headed in the direction that Maddie had come from, and lo and behold, there was Pat.
“Hey, man,” Pat said.
Grant ignored him.
Pat just laughed. “When are you going to grow up?”
He turned to glare at the other man. Pat had been sitting at the main table, but now he was on his feet and sending an almighty glare his way.
“Why don’t you fuck off?” Grant said. “I’ve got nothing to say to you.”
