Page 50 of Ruined Promises

“Hey, are you home?” Brynn asks before even saying hello when I answer the phone.

“No, I just arrived at Ben’s house, about to walk in now,” I respond.Why is she acting so weird?

The phone goes quiet for a moment. “Brynn, you still there?”

“Yeah, sorry. I’m here.”

I take a seat on the step, and the cold stone through the fabric of my bottoms causes a shiver up my spine.

“Brynn, what’s going on? You’re making me nervous.”

“So Cal and I were out to dinner at Esta Noche, and we saw something—well, more like someone.”

Could she be any more cryptic right now?

“Okay,” I draw out, not knowing where she’s going with this.

She sighs heavily into the phone. “We saw Dominic, Lex.”

Well, that wasn’t the response I was expecting.

“And this is newsworthy why?” I do not understand why this was worthy of a phone call and why she’s acting so strange.

I can hear Cal talking in the background, and all I can make out from what he is saying is, “Yes, it’s definitely them.”

“Definitely who,” I repeat. “Is he with his secretary or something? Dominic and I have been over for a while and I’m happy with Ben. Dominic Jennings is free to do whatever the hell he pleases.” Just saying his name leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

“He was with Asher.”

Wait. What?My stomach drops. If I wasn’t already sitting down, I am pretty sure my legs would have given out.Asher and Dominic?

“How does he know Dominic?”

Brynn snorts into the phone. “Well, I think you’re asking the wrong person.”

Cal mumbles something again. “I can’t hear what he was saying. Can you put me on speakerphone?”

“No, we’re kind of staking out the bar where they’re sitting.”

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

“Well, get out of there. I don’t need him to see either of you. Asher wouldn’t know you two, but Dom would.”

“What are you going to do?” That’s the million-dollar question.

“I don’t know.” And I honestly don’t. It’s none of my business who Asher hangs out with or associates with; hell, I don’t even know him that well. But I do know Dominic, and I know now after my own experience that he is not good people to associate with. Of course, while we were dating, I was utterly blind to it. “Wait, how did you know it was Asher with him?”

“Internet stalking, of course.”

I bellow out a laugh. “Of course you would.”

The mood of the call changes drastically. “Well, how else am I supposed to know what he looks like since he’s always too busy to hang out with us. Now we know it’s because he hangs out with can’t-keep-it-in-his-pants Jennings. Lex, do you think he knows about you and Dom?”

Again, another million-dollar question. “I don’t know, but I guess I need to tell Ben about my past before Asher does.”

“Wait, hold up, you haven’t even told Ben?”

“Really, B,” I say, knowing that she hates that nickname. “It’s not like it’s a great bedside discussion. ‘Oh hey, babe, just so you know, before you and I started dating, I was kind of dating the boss’s son. We lived together.”Fuck, I believed I was going to marry him for God’s sake.

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