Page 79 of Revival

“You need to hear me out.”

“You know, there’s a difference between people who say they want to apologize and people who actually use the words I’m sorry.”

Sebastian frowns. “Iamsorry.”

“You should have started there.” I move a step closer to my car, keeping my getaway close. “You hurt me.”

“I know. The wedding planning messed me up. I don’t think I was ready.”

“I’ll say. I’m shocked you’re a lawyer with how poor your communication skills are.”

He runs a hand through his hair, wrecking what I know took him thirty minutes to style. “I didn’t mean for things to happen as they did. It only happened once.”

“Really?” I cross my arms. “Is that why you decided to fuck her onmycouch?”

Sebastian narrows his eyes in frustration. “I accidentally left a file in your house from the night before. We stopped by on our way back from the courthouse in Minneapolis, and I guess one thing led to another. I don’t really know how it happened,” he mumbles. “Just that it did.”

“The camera footage reveals exactly how it happened.”

He grimaces. “I forgot about that.”

My stomach pitches. I can’t be sure if the nausea is from last night or his disgusting story.

“I don’t believe you.”

“It’s the truth,” he says, and he actually looks like he means it. In fact, he looks like he might cry.

He can cry himself to sleep every night for all I care.

“I think you’re a coward.”

He nods as if accepting my insult.

My hands ball into fists.

“No, you don’t get it. I think you’re a coward. I think you didn’t want to go through with the wedding, not because you weren’t ready, but because you were too busy fucking your assistant on the side and you didn’t want to lose that piece of ass. I think you’re a coward, because instead of coming and talking to me or breaking things off like an adult, you decided to bring her to my house and fuck her on my couch, knowing I have security cameras in my living room!”

“Cortney, I swear I didn’t—”

“Yes, you did! Because you know me well enough to know that if I caught you cheating, which I told you was a hard line for me since I was cheated on by Ollie’s dad, you knew that if I caught you, I’d call things off.Me.” I stab a manicured finger into my chest. “Because you’re too much of a coward to call it off yourself.”

“That’s not… I didn’t mean… I fucked up.”

“Yeah, you fucked up,” I hiss. “More than once. You tried to fuck up my vacation too, but I hate to tell you, your plan didn’t work. While you were here with your doe-eyed assistant, you sent me on a luxurious two-week vacation with averyattractive man.”

Sebastian balks. “I thought it was only for one week.”

Gripping the top of my car door, I lean closer and smirk. “I extended it.”

I slide Jude’s sunglasses down my nose, give him the ole once-over, and push them back up. “Leave me alone, Sebastian. I want nothing to do with you.”

“I thought we could have another chance.”

My laugh is slightly maniacal, but I’m beyond caring what Sebastian thinks.

I drop heavily into my car and grip the handle.

“Stay away from me. I don’t ever want to see you again.”

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