Protecting Bianca by Eve Marian

Author:Eve Marian [Marian, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paige Publishing
Published: 2024-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

14

Bianca

Jager’s face fell, and he closed his eyes briefly. “I can explain.”

My body felt numb, but at the same time, I just wanted to jump out of the car. The fear that I couldn’t think straight enough to get home kept me in my seat.

“What the fuck?” I said, more to myself than to him. “How do you know Ruby? How…how…”

I knew it wasn’t that he knew Ruby, but that he was Ruby, yet I couldn’t even get the words straight. Or maybe some part of me wanted it to be true. He was into tech, after all. “Did you hack into her phone and set yourself up to receive her messages?”

I wasn’t sure if that was any better, but I didn’t want to imagine the alternative.

“No, Bianca. It’s not like that.”

“Then what is it?”

“We’re ten minutes away from my place. Let me get us there so I can explain everything to you.”

“I don’t want to go to your place, Jager. Don’t you get that? I want to go home.”

He swore softly under his breath. “Yeah. I get that.” Then he checked his rearview mirror and swerved to the right. A car honked, and a man shouted at us as he drove past.

Jager pulled into the back of some commercial building. I should have been more scared than I was, but I was too angry to be scared. “What are you doing?”

He undid his seatbelt and turned to face me. “I want to explain what happened.”

“How are you going to explain that you’ve been lying to me for two years?” I seethed. My chest rose and fell with each labored breath. “That you’ve misled, deceived, and mocked me by pretending to be someone else while I poured my heart out to you? I thought you were a friend, my best friend, but you are a fraud.”

My voice cracked, and I pressed my lips together. I was so angry I could smash the window next to me with my bare hand.

“You were my best friend, too. I couldn’t wait until I logged on and talked to you. You were the best part of my day.”

I scoffed. He was unbelievable. “How could you sit there and tell me these things?”

“Because they’re the truth. And I also didn’t know it was you I was chatting with until recently. I confirmed it when I saw you at the bar with John.”

Oh my God. Why hadn’t I thought about that? Did I believe it was just a coincidence that I had met him there? I was such an idiot. I dropped my head into my hands, humiliated. “I don’t believe this.”

“I couldn’t believe it myself. All this time that I wished I could talk to you, wishing you were still in my life, and I didn’t even know it was you.”

He reached for my hand, but I pulled away. I wasn’t ready for his touch. Although his voice sounded sincere, how did I know I could trust him? He’d been keeping this secret admittedly for days.

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