All the Wrong Reasons by Kaye Jerilee

Author:Kaye, Jerilee [Kaye, Jerilee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B07JJBG1NX
Goodreads: 42391995
Published: 2018-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

20. Incandescere

Latin. Etymology of Incandescent

After breakfast, Adrienne remembered that no matter how hard she tried to avoid Troy and Kim, she has nothing to wear for the rest of the weekend. And she couldn’t go buying stuff from the hotel shop. Yes, Justin could afford it, but she wouldn’t allow him to keep buying her clothes.

“I’ll pay up for your room till noon,” Justin offered. “I don’t want Troy to think you owe him anything when you leave. You will be staying with me now.”

“I’ll pay you back.”

“Useless. Come on, it’s a small price to pay for spending the rest of the weekend with you.” He kissed her.

Justin went to the reception and she went up to her room to get her stuff and say a few things to Kim, if necessary.

When she got to the room, Kim wasn’t there. She started gathering her things. But after a minute, Kim entered, with Troy.

She swallowed.

Awkward!

“You’re leaving?” Kim asked in a bored tone.

She shook her head. “No. Justin checked out this room already. It’s paid up until twelve. You guys can just rebook it if you want.” She tried her best to be casual.

“Who is he, Adrienne?” Troy asked quietly.

“None of your business now, Troy,” she said angrily. “Sue him if you want, I could always go on the witness stand and say that he just came before you beat the life out of me.”

“I’m not stupid, Adrienne,” Troy responded. “I know what I did. And even if you don’t believe me, I am sorry. I didn’t mean for things to get out of hand. I didn’t mean to get too drunk.”

“So you mean to tell me, you can beat a helpless girl and the fact that you are drunk gives you the right to do so?”

She stared at him. His nose looked broken, and he had a shiner on both eyes. He did look pretty beaten up. And she didn’t feel the least bit sorry for him. In fact, she suppressed the urge to laugh.

“So all along there was another guy lurking in the shadows?” Kim asked.

Oh, really? She’s going to pin this on me?

She couldn’t even begin to decipher what a sorry piece of trash her sister really was. How did I end up with this family? She felt fury coming back to her.

She took a deep breath and stopped herself before she could cross the room and haul Kimberly by her pretty blond hair.

“Just like there was another girl lurking in the shadows all along, right, Troy?”

Troy closed his eyes. He fell quiet.

Guilt! Guilt! Guilt!

“Never mind. We didn’t need to cheat on each other to realize that this was going nowhere. We were nothing for a very long time. But you know what? Yesterday, before I broke up with you, I still hoped we could at least be friends. But I guess that’s out the window now!”

“Fine!” Troy threw his hands in the air. “Who is he anyway? What kind of guy did you replace me with? Can he even give you the life your mother wants for you?”

She wanted to laugh.

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