Wild Nights With My Brother’s Ex-Best Friend novel Chapter 157

NICOLE

We lie in bed afterward, side by side.

“I want you to tell me about her.”

Roman tenses right away and stops running his fingers through my hair. “Who?”

“Esmeralda.”

He reacts like I’ve just slapped him across the face. He even turns his face away from mine. “I don’t see how that’s relevant, Nikki. I don’t want to share that part of my life with you because it doesn’t matter as much to me.”

I place my hand over his cheek and force him to look at me again. “It’s not going to work if we think this way, Roman! told you-no more lies!”

He meets my gaze. “I don’t want to hurt you. Can’t you see that?”

It hurts me more when I receive photos of you holding her hand when you tell me you have nothing to do with her,” I continue angrily. “So, tell me. I want to understand what’s going on.”

Roman is reluctant, but he ends up sharing everything with me, from the whole NDA thing they had to sign to the terms he’s not keeping, but only because she made a mistake when her lawyer set up her terms.

“So, I never go see her,” he continues. “And she gets these…fuck, Nikki. She’s crazy! I really didn’t need that in my life. Yesterday, she refused treatment if I didn’t hold her hand. She does things like that. It’s driving me insane.”

I can imagine her doing ail of this. Emeralda’s goal in life was always to get a rich man, and now she got lucky. I remember her coming into the coffee shop where I used to work, gloating about her pregnancy, and it makes my – stomach churn.

She was so happy to tell me that she was pregnant. She knew that, at some point, I’d find out, and I’m sure she was Looking forward to it.

I don’t know what I ever did to her. Mason was right.

Emeralda was always a snake. Greed does that to people.

Back then, she was actually a decent person.

But I don’t want to think about that now.

Roman continues, “She’s unstable and I don’t want her anywhere near you. I know you used to be friends, and to be fair, I don’t even want to hear about that. But I don’t want her anywhere near you.”

“What about the baby?”

“I never wanted it. Doesn’t that count for something?”

“That’s not what I mean.”

He presses his lips to mine and I know it’s his way of dodging this conversation completely. I won’t let that happen, though. I want everything to be clear. Crystal clear.

“Roman.” He stops kissing me and sighs. “What will you do about the baby? Will you participate?”

“Not according to the agreement we have.”

“So, you’ll just never see the baby?”

“I don’t understand why that’s so bad,” he claims, throwing his arm around me and pulling me impossibly closer to him. “I never wanted to have a baby with her or anyone. got a vasectomy, remember? The only woman I ever wanted to have a family with is you, Nikki. You’re the one who changed my mind.”

His fingers run along my jawline, up my cheeks, and then he’s tracing all my features while I’m fighting back tears.

“I think about that baby we lost all the time,” he whispers.

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