Wild Nights With My Brother’s Ex-Best Friend novel Chapter 145

NICOLE

Right now, I feet like I’m looking at a stranger and not Roman, the man I love and have loved for the better part of my life.

I’m beyond heartbroken, but there’s also this element of ridiculousness that just can’t get over.

Am I really here, seated across from Emeralda who’s somehow pregnant with Roman’s child? In what world does something like this happen?

I would be more mad at her but the truth is that I feel too numb for that. I think back to that day of the festival when she got so mad at me for being with Roman and not telling her about it. That was the last time that she and I talked, and it was because of Roman.

Is that why she was so mad at me? Because she wanted Roman for herself?

How fucking ridiculous. Then again, I should’ve known that something was off.

I genuinely should have known something.

When exactly did she get pregnant? I want to ask all these things but at the same time, do I really want to know? What’s the point of knowing? It has already happened and no amount of explanations will ever make this better.

Emeralda looks happy, and she’s been smiling even harder since Roman walked into the living room, even though she hasn’t said a thing. I can feel his eyes on me, but I refuse to look at him. I just can’t.

Angus clears his throat, then asks the housekeeper who’s standing nearby and watching this shit show unfold for a glass of water.When she disappears, Angus says to me, “Maybe you have a few questions for them, Nicole. Let’s clear the air out, why don’t we?”

Angus is having way too much fun with all of this. He’s known about this for a while, and he hadn’t told me. Only when I asked. I know what he gains from all this and that just sickens me even more.

“When did it happen?” I hear myself asking even though I told myself it didn’t matter and that I wouldn’t ask anything.

Emeralda opens her mouth to speak but Roman cuts in and says, “We don’t have to have this conversation here.”

Something about his tone irritates me. “Why not?”

“Because this isn’t what it seems,” he says through gritted teeth. “None of this is.”

“You expect me to believe that?” I ask, feeling more and more irritated with each passing second. I point at Emeralda, and suddenly, I lose my grip on my calmness and I’m shouting like a maniac. “You’re having a kid with my best friend! Or should I say, my ex-best friend-”

“What?” he interrupts. Shock is written all over his face now. “Best friend?”

He turns his head to look at Emeralda slowly. Then, he says, “I didn’t know. Nikki, I swear I didn’t—”

1 decide I’ve had enough. Just like that. None of my emotions make

‘sense right now and I think it’s worse that he’s trying to explain and say he didn’t know about my relationship with her, which would make sense because I never introduced the two of them to each other, but again, that doesn’t matter.

I say this to him as I’m standing up, then add, “I wish you both all the happiness in the world.”Esmeralda says, “Nicole-”

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