Birthday Wishes (Holiday Romance Collection Book 2) by Danielle Baker

Author:Danielle Baker [Baker, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The punch that landed on his cheekbone, just below his left eye, was well deserved. As was the second one.

When Van swung at him a third time, though, he caught his friend’s hand and stopped him, shoving him away. Van growled and dropped his head, ramming into his chest hard enough to seize his breath. Grant wrapped his arms around Van’s middle, picking him up off the ground and tossing him away.

“You bastard,” Van shouted as he regained his footing, and Grant just nodded. “What did you do? She’s fucking leaving, Grant! She said she’s falling in love with us, and she’s leaving! She said if she can’t have both of us, she doesn’t want either of us. So, she’s fucking leaving me, too. We just fucking found her!”

Stalking away, Van shoved his fingers through his hair, his chest heaving. Grant just stared at his friend.

“God dammit, you emotionally stunted son of a bitch!” Van raged, coming back at him. Pointing toward the exterior of the building, he shouted, “She just left here sobbing, Grant. She looked so goddamn broken. What the fuck did you do?!”

“Do you see what’s happening?” Grant asked gruffly, shoving his hands into his pockets and turning away.

“I see a woman that is somehow crazy about both of us—somehow loves both of us—running scared because you’re a jackass,” Van muttered, shaking his head. Grant swallowed hard. She couldn’t. She wouldn’t, not now, anyway. His own actions would make sure of that. He’d seen the tears tracking down her cheeks as she lay motionless against the desk. It had gutted him. Fuck, everything about her gutted him. Being around her, not being around her. Grant grunted when Van shoved his shoulder, spinning him back to face him. “What did you do to her?”

“I did what I told her I would,” he muttered. Guilt gnawed at his gut, making his stomach heave. He had hurt her. Deeply.

“You fucked her like you hate her,” Van snapped, shaking his head again in disbelief, calling him out. Fucker knew him too well. “Well, congratulations. Because she fucking believes it.”

“Like you haven’t fucked her again since we found her?” Grant deflected, muttering with a disdainful snort as he glared at his friend.

Van took a deep breath in and let it out just as slowly before turning and walking to the door. He stopped there, turning before he exited and said quietly, “No, actually, we haven’t had sex. She wanted to wait for you. She wanted it to be all of us again. So, yeah… Thanks for that.”

And then Van walked out of the office and down the hall, and the pleaded words she’d tried to convey to him came back to him. She had tried to tell him, and he hadn’t listened. Had been so convinced that she and Van had already… and his jealousy and rage had been too volatile, his ego too fragile to be willing to listen to her quiet pleas.

Fuck he’d made a mess of things. He’d been so damn angry, so hurt… he’d wanted her to know how it felt.

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