Page 43 of Her Loyalty

"So anyway, they tied me up and started questioning me about you."

"What did you say?" I asked desperately and he held his hands out.

"Well, I told them the truth, Tiana. I explained how your mother set everything up, I explained how we never did anything remotely sexual and I told them I had a girlfriend of my own that I was lying to."

"What?!" I shrieked at this new information.

"Yeah, I had one the entire time." He nodded, smiling nervously.

"Wow." I said to myself, just thinking about this crazy situation at hand.

"I just wish we could've talked about it and maybe we wouldn't be in this deep." He went on and I nodded, looking down at my hands.

"So why did you date me?" I asked and he looked straight ahead at the cars riding by.

"Well your mother promised me free school."

"Not surprised." I scoffed.

"She promised me graduation." I admitted and he furrowed his eyebrows.

"If I didn't date you, she wasn't going to pay for my last semester."

"Are you kidding me?" He asked and I shook my head.

"This is fucked." He spoke in the whitest voice ever, making me laugh.

"I think we should've just talked before hand, all of this could've been avoided. We could've been faking it all and still living our happy lives with our significant others." I expressed to him and he nodded.

"Yeah, that's true."

"But if it makes you feel any better, my girlfriend left me too."

"She found out?" I asked with wide eyes and he shook his head.

"I simply told her, Tiana."

"Yeah, that's how Dominic found out too. I just went ahead and told him." I admitted and we both looked down, realizing how messed up this was.

"So how do you plan on getting him back?" He went onto ask and I shrugged.

"I don't know. I-" I started but stopped, feeling myself getting choked up.

"I don't know, Connor." I simply said, really not sure.

I mean, Dominic knew the entire story now but that didn't mean he would just take me back. I still hadn't told him the worst part of all and that was getting head from Connor. If we were ever going to work again, he needed to know that but I could never tell him that. I couldn't hurt him anymore than I already have.

"Hopefully you guys can figure it out."

"..or not, you know? There's nothing wrong with being single."

"Oh, shut up." I pushed his shoulder.

"I'm serious." He chuckled, looking over to me.

"You know right after this conversation you're going to go and call her. Look at you." I told him as he now scrolled his phone with a smile.

"It's alright though, you're in love. Do everything you can to get her back. If she comes back then that means it's meant to be. If not, then it just wasn't for you."

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