Christmas with the Sheriff by Victoria James

Author:Victoria James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance; Bliss; Entangled; sweet romance; romance; small town; Victoria James; Christmas; Sheriff; holiday; secret; single dad; widow
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Bliss)
Published: 2016-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Hell. What. The. Hell?

Chase felt his body go from burning hot to cold in five seconds flat. He dropped his hands from Julia’s face and took in her insecure expression. He knew she wasn’t a liar. He would never question that, but the idea of what she was saying…it was impossible. He jammed his hands into his pockets and replayed her question in his head. Michael had been cheating?

“Cheating? Michael?”

She nodded and her eyes filled with a wariness and vulnerability that made his gut churn. She wanted to know if he was as big an ass as his best friend. God, if Michael were alive he’d kill him. He still remembered feeling so jealous of him when he went on his first date with Julia. He thought Michael had it all, and then when they’d gotten married, and then when Matthew was born. He had never let himself think he was a good enough man for Julia.

But it turns out his best friend had been even worse.

“Did you know, Chase?”

He shook his head. “No. Hell, no. God, no.”

She closed her eyes for a moment and her shoulders slumped slightly. He bent his knees to look at her, eye level, and held her arms gently. “Are you sure? When did you know?”

She took a deep breath and then looked up into the sky. “After I moved. When I finally was able to go through his computer. I was looking for banking information and retrieving files that I would need. I noticed a string of emails from a lawyer whose name I recognized. He’d talked about her a lot in that last year. I stupidly didn’t think anything of it.” She paused and her chin wobbled and she adjusted her hat, before looking down at her boots. He struggled to remain calm and not demand all the answers. He was also struggling with his own need to pound his fist through a wall at the thought of what Michael had done. It wasn’t fair. How could he have done that to her? She’d had to deal with all of this alone? All these years?

“What happened, sweetheart?”

Her head shot up and the tears were gone this time. “They…this woman and him had been seeing each other for about a year.”

He bit back a few of his favorite expletives. “You know this for sure?”

She crossed her arms in front of her. “Yup. There were texts that I found. Oh, they were careful. They always added that there was a ‘meeting’ at such and such a place. So the important meetings and late nights that Michael was busy with? More like he was busy with LeAnn.”

Chase ran his hands down his face. What an ass. Michael had had everything and he’d ruined it. He ruined Julia’s memory of him and their family. He was mad as hell for her.

“I called her.”

He dropped his hands and tried not to let his mouth hang open. She had guts. If there was one thing he knew about this woman, it was that she had guts, and a heart of gold and it’d been broken way too many times.

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