Wild Nights With My Brother's Ex-Best Friend novel Chapter 66

ROMAN

For the past several hours, I haven't been able to take that sight of Nicole in Sebastian's car out of my mind.

I wouldn't call Sebastian a friend—we do business together occasionally, but I could give a shit less about him. I have ten other guys lined up to do his job.

...meaning I wouldn't miss him if he disappeared off the face of the earth, and it wouldn't affect me at all.

I down my fourth glass of scotch. At this rate, I'm going to do something stupid that I might regret. I can feel it in my bones. My desire is to strut into his office first thing tomorrow morning and strangle him right in front of his employees—and that includes Nicole.

I thought I could move on, and that at some point, I'd be able to forget her. But all it took for me to spiral was seeing her with another man.

I can't let that happen.

Nicole belongs solely to me and I'll be damned if I let another man have her.

I've made my mistakes but I've learned from them. Yes, I was dishonest. I lied. Betrayed her. I was a total asshole. But if she gave me another chance, I'd treat her the right way.

Losing her was the hardest thing that ever happened to me.

I would never make the same mistakes again.

As I take another sip of my drink, I realize that I'm a selfish, selfish man. I'm only thinking about myself here and what I want. But the truth? I see it in her eyes every time I'm close to her that she's as tortured as I am. And why would she look that way if she'd moved on?

I make a decision and reach for my phone. My eyes are searching for Sebastian's number before I can stop myself. I'll arrange a meeting between us, and in that meeting, I'll warn him to stay the fuck away from my girl.

If he knows what's good for him, he'll back away.

Naturally, I won't tell him this over the phone. I don't want him to think anything's wrong.

"Roman?" Sebastian says as soon as he answers. He sounds concerned. Though we once exchanged numbers, I've never done this before. We usually have our secretaries contact each other to arrange a meeting if we need one.

"Sebastian," I say, keeping my tone leveled even though I might just kill this man the next time I see him. "I hope you don't mind me calling at this hour."

"No, of course not. Is everything alright?"

"Not necessarily. I was hoping we could arrange a meeting anytime this week or maybe next week to discuss something."

"Is it concerning our partnership?"

"Something like that."

He sounds apologetic when he says, "This week will be impossible. I'm swamped with work and meetings because I'll be taking all of next week off."

"Everything alright?"

"Yes. I'll be going away for a while and I have everything planned, otherwise, I'd have canceled it so we could sort this out."

I clench my jaw, more irritated than ever. That's too fucking long. The thought of him having all these days to touch Nicole just sends me spiraling.

Maybe I should walk into his office building like I'd planned earlier and beat him to a pulp. Fuck the meeting.

But something occurs to me then...he's going away? Where? Will Nicole be going with him?

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