Redemption by R.R. Banks

Author:R.R. Banks [Banks, R.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

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It's close to ten when I pull into the driveway at Brady's house. After leaving the cafe where Tiffany had dropped the bomb that had cratered my life, I drove around aimlessly. My head was spinning and a million different thoughts were racing through my mind.

I felt used. Betrayed. And most of all – angry.

Brady came out of the house as I get out of the car, a worried look on his face. “Where were you?” he asks. “I've tried calling. I've been worried sick.”

“I – I was driving,” I say. “I needed to clear my head.”

He looks at me closely and I can see that he's genuinely concerned about me. Or at least, he's putting on a good show of it – you know, selling the illusion.

“What's wrong?” he asks. “What happened, Amanda?”

“Did you fuck her?”

He looks like I slapped him across the face – something I'm sorely tempted to do.

“What are you talking about, darlin'?” he asks.

“Don't even give me that darlin' shit, Brady,” I snap. “Did. You. Fuck. Her?”

He shakes his head. “Honey, I have no idea what you're talking about. Who?”

Reaching into the car, I pull out the file Tiffany had given to me and hand it to him. He looks at me for a moment and then opens the folder, thumbing through the pictures. As he looks at them, an inscrutable expression crosses his face and he starts to laugh.

“That evil, conniving bitch,” he says. “I take it you got these from Tiffany?”

“Let me ask you again, one more time,” I say, my voice cold. “Did you fuck her?”

“Darlin', I did not fuck her,” he says.

He looks me square in the eye and I want to believe him. Want to believe that he's sincere and isn't lying to me. But my head is so twisted, I can't even think straight at the moment.

“Then why are you kissing her in that picture?” I ask.

He sighs. “Let's go inside and talk about this?”

I shake my head. “Answer my question, Brady,” I say. “Why did you kiss her?”

He looks at me for a long moment before speaking. “She kissed me, Amanda. Just out of nowhere,” he says. “If Tiffany had bothered to give you the pictures of what came after this, they'd show me pushing her off of me.”

“I want to believe you, Brady.”

“Then believe me, darlin',” he says. “I've never lied to you.”

“Then why didn't you bother telling me Nicholas' mother was in town?”

He runs a hand through his hair and shakes his head. “Because honestly, I didn't think it mattered,” he says. “I figured she was just going to blow town again. She's flaky, Amanda.”

I look at him and although he looks sincere, I just can't be sure. I don't trust my instincts at the moment. Not when it comes to Brady.

“Why was she here?” I ask. “What was she doing in town?”

“Apparently, to help Tiffany set me up,” he says. “I should have known her running into me after my meeting with Tiffany wasn't a coincidence.

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