LUCA by Haley Jenner

Author:Haley Jenner [Jenner, Haley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Luca

I pace the apartment floor, wearing the wooden floor down with the heavy falls of my feet. Griff moves in time with me, anxiety radiating from his tiny body. He reads the volcanic temper rolling off me in waves, suffocating the apartment in my fury.

I can’t get the image of her leaving with that scaly motherfucker out of my mind. It replays on a loop. A nightmare I can’t escape. Worse, the moment I chased her the fuck outta the bar. Like a love-sick puppy. Thank fuck she was gone before I could make a fool out of myself.

I can’t believe her. After what the slimeball did. To his wife. To her. He oozed prick. A vainglorious, conceited asshole. What she ever saw in a piece of shit like that is beyond me.

She deserved more. Or so I thought. Right up until that single fucking moment when she walked out of my bar, inviting him with her. The smile he threw my way, my fist clenches just thinking about it. What I’d give to connect it to his face, knock out his cosmetically whitened teeth.

I’ve called her five times. Offered five opportunities to second-guess the decision she seems hell-bent on making. Five opened-ended invitations to stop her turning into the whore she so desperately hated him for making her feel like.

She rejected every single fucking one.

Threw them back in my face and continued with her want to be involved with a guy who promised his life to someone else. She chose, in every one of those missed opportunities to back out, to pull herself down to his level.

Now she’s nothing more than the whore he decided she’d be.

Her key sounds in the front door and my feet cease their pacing, my acidic stare trained to the space. My breathing is so thick, my chest deflates and expands noticeably. I feel shaky, ready to break something.

Cracking my neck, I let my unwarranted sense of betrayal seep further into my bones.

“Luc.” She smiles, her face clear of remorse.

“Pack your shit, get the fuck out of my house.”

I did not expect that to be the first thing to fly from my mouth. But it’s too late to take it back, so I own it, arms crossing my chest in condemnation.

“What?” The easy smile on her face falls away, replaced by shock.

I feel sweaty, my shirt clinging to my skin in panic. Nostrils flaring, I take a step forward. “You heard me. Pack your shit, and get the fuck outta my house,” I grit through clenched teeth.

Hands rising in surrender, her eyes drag down the quaking temper of my body. “I’ve clearly missed something…. What’s crawled up your ass?”

Hands linking at the back of my head, I tip my neck back, laughing darkly. Turning on my heel, I pace once more, wanting to roar in frustration. “You wanna whore yourself out to a scum bag like that, that’s on you. But it means I want less than nothing to do with you.”

Her feet falter backward, pain slicing across her pretty face.

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