Rumor Has It by Cheris Hodges

Author:Cheris Hodges [Hodges, Cheris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Sincerely,

SGT Riley Cooper

82nd Airborne

He blinked back the tears in his eyes. Cooper had been a hotheaded private and now he was a sergeant. Jackson felt like a proud father hearing from one of the young men he’d trained all those years ago.

Teresa handed Jackson Riley’s three thousand–dollar donation. It was that moment right then that Jackson knew he couldn’t quit or do anything to risk his chances.

Liza walked into her office, but she didn’t turn the television on. She didn’t really want to see the news coverage because seeing Jackson on TV would do nothing but set her body on fire. Still, the professional inside her knew she needed to see how the story was playing out. Rubbing her eyes, Liza told herself this wasn’t a story but her life. A life Robert was trying to make a part of political theater because he couldn’t keep his dick in his pants.

Now, she was mad. Picking up her office phone, she called Chante. If her friend wanted to be stupid, Liza needed to know if the heffa had seen her text message.

“Hello?” Chante answered.

“Chante, it’s Liza.”

Her friend’s sigh echoed in her ear. “What could you possibly want? Great performance you put on today. Caught you and your coconspirator on the news.”

“You really think Robert is telling the truth?” Liza scoffed.

“I know you, Liza. And as much as you tried to pretend there’s nothing but crepes between the two of you, I know better.”

“If you know me so well, then you have to know I’m telling the truth about Robert.”

“What I know is, you’re bitter and you think that every man in the world is like your father or Alvin Thorne. You introduced me to Robert, and for you to do what you did to him, it makes no sense. I thought you wanted me to be happy and get a life outside the courtroom.”

“Chante, if you’re going to believe the lies Robert told you because you want to be married so badly, then go ahead. But those pictures I sent you don’t lie. That’s the man you’ve pledged your life to and he doesn’t give a hot damn about you.”

Chante sighed again. Liza could feel her friend faltering. “Maybe you shouldn’t have done such a great job of selling Robert to me, because I love him, Liza.”

“Then I guess you’ve decided that love makes you stupid. Chante, if Robert had been the man I thought he was, the man who pretended to care about you and the people of this district, then I wouldn’t have those pictures.”

“Like you couldn’t have Photoshopped them,” she said in a small voice.

“No matter what Robert tells you, Chante, I’m not trying to hurt either of you. But I don’t want to see you make a mistake and wake up in twenty years realizing that you married a fraud. Or finding out that you have some incurable disease because of his wayward dick. But you’re a grown woman.”

“Just be honest. You don’t want to see Robert happy.

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