Two to Tangle by Kris Jayne

Author:Kris Jayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944460204
Publisher: Kris Jayne

Chapter 16

Delilah

“Knock knock.”

Still stunned from Carter’s news, I turned toward Griffin’s voice streaming from the doorway.

Carter jerked around. Griffin’s eyes flicked between us and narrowed.

“Sorry it took me so long. I got waylaid by Jim in finance. He personally wanted to catch me up on the news around here for the last six years. I see you’ve met Carter.”

I stood and crossed my arms, pushing them against my chest as if that might still my rage-thundering heart. “Carter was catching me up on some things as well. The three of you went to college together.”

“Three?” Griffin’s voice fell off a cliff into a tremulous question.

“You, Marisa, and Carter.”

Griffin paled. “Yes, we did.”

“Well,” the other man broke in, “I’ll leave you to it. It was a wonderful meeting you, Delilah. Say hello to your husband for me.”

“Ex-husband,” I replied reflexively, unable to get angry about the remark with my fury at Griffin consuming me.

Executive VP Carter’s angular face shifted to disgust when he regarded Griffin on his way out the door. I wasn’t sure if I imagined it, but I think he even dipped a little at the knee in a mock bow before he fled the tension crawling up the walls of the office.

Griffin shut the door behind him.

There was no point in waiting.

“He was telling me how you and Marisa were homecoming king and queen and quite the couple.”

“Look, Delilah, I was going to tell…”

“Stop.” My breath came in gasps, and I held up my hand. “You didn’t think that that was something I should know? That you and Marisa were once a couple? You should have told me before I came here. Before she was all fake smiles and welcoming last night. Every single time I tried to say you should get over your dad marrying a younger woman and reconcile—at no point through any of that, could you have told me that you once fucked that woman?”

I kept my voice just below a scream. The last thing I wanted was random people hearing me getting all angry black woman in his gleaming, high-rise office.

Griffin’s volume slid lower than mine, insistent and defeated at the same time. “It is the single most embarrassing fact of my life. Saying it out loud still makes me feel sick to my stomach. And I wanted to tell you a thousand times. I couldn’t get the words out even though I knew this moment was coming.”

He swept a hand through his hair and continued, “The last thing I wanted was for you to feel sorry for me.”

Knowing how much this betrayal plagued him poked a tiny hole in my anger, but it didn’t deflate. “I smiled at that woman and told her, ‘Don’t worry, I’m sure Griffin doesn’t hate you as much as you think he does.’ She pretended to be so sad and so fucking grateful.” I closed my eyes cross referencing my memory of that conversation with what Carter Cross had told me.

“She can be very convincing.”

I massaged the growing

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