I was glad Tiffany wasn’t yet back from Kate’s place. I looked like hell with dark circles around my red eyes, the same clothes I’d worn at the party and a faint throbbing headache that only added to my troubled state. I looked like a zombie, and not the one that went around moaning for brains. I’d been tossing and turning in bed for hours, constantly thinking about Harper and Maddox fucking like there was no tomorrow.
She’d been so into it even when fucked hard. She wanted it. She’d sounded so damn sexy but instead of enjoying it, I hated every bit of it. Because it wasn’t me she was begging for more.
The way he got excited when he needed to return upstairs because she was fucking ready, the way I left her car parked in his front yard, it all burned my chest.
Even with the sunlight filtering through the curtains, I stared at the ceiling, hoping that sleep would come if I forced it hard enough but the harder I tried to shut out any fucking images of them, the clearer it became and I couldn’t take it anymore.
It was 11 in the morning and I needed to know where she was. I just needed to make sure Maddox still didn’t have her in his bed.
Pacing right near the bed, I dialed her number before I could talk myself out of it.
“Hey!” she said from the other end of the line, her voice soft and casual.
Trying to sound natural, I said, “Hey, I just thought I’d check on you. The party was wild and you drank too much. Any hangover?”
“I’m good. What about you?”
“You know I don’t get drunk easily.”
“Yeah, but the way Maddox described it when he came back upstairs was crazy.”
I clenched my jaw at the mention of his name. “Where are you?”
“I’m home now.”
I was so relieved that I sat down on the bed, but it still didn’t erase the fact that she had been with Maddox all night.
“Did you really have to end up with him last night?” I asked before I could stop myself.
She sighed. “Please don’t start.”
“I’m only asking because of how you barely spoke to him for the past-”
“We talked about everything, right after you went back inside. We’re good now.”
“So you just ignored the fact that he was fucking Kate and-”
“The thing with Kate is…none of my business. Like I said, we’re good now.”
I feared that if I dragged out that conversation, she would only catch on to what else was going on with me. Maddox was leaving but I was still in town. That was all I needed to turn things around.
“Let’s do something this afternoon.”
“Uh…really?” she asked like she now had a smile plastered on her face.
“Yeah, just you and me. We haven’t been out in years.”
“Oh…I uh…”
I smirked in satisfaction. She could fuck Maddox if she wanted for a whole month straight, but when it came down to who really made her wish for more, it definitely wasn’t him.
“I can’t,” she said. “I have so much work to do today. I haven’t even checked my work emails yet.”
“Then we can do it any day you feel like it. I’ll wait.”
She giggled like a teenager. “How’s this Friday?”
“Perfect and don’t worry about Tiffany. I’ll handle that part. Where do you want us to go?”
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