Page 121 of Manhattan Secret

I’m so goddamnangryand in love with her I want to rage in her gorgeous, pleading face that she left me, she’s the one who broke us so easily, like months of falling in love means nothing to her.

She’s here.

She wants us back.

And my heart won’t stop jumping in my chest. I’m having a fucking coronary.

I still feel her crumbling on my fingers, her tight little pussy and girl cries.

I smell her. I’m intoxicated by her musk, aching behind my shorts to fuck my anger out on her body.

I saw her and my immediate reaction was to tell everyone to get the hell out so I could scoop up my girl and press my face into her neck.

I’ve waited too fucking long to see that face again.

Now I’m sitting in my truck outside that shitty motel and my nerve endings are on fire.The urge to go back inside and take care of her—make sure she’s eating and getting some sleep is a physical pain in my gut.

She wants a chance, does she?

My mouse better fucking bring her A game.

There’s no way in hell she gets to walk out on me twice.

She kept me as a secret.

Now she needs to bring me into the light.

I immediately connect a call to Theo who’s puffing and panting on the other end. “Are you fucking?”

“Would I really answer the phone if I were?”

Good point.

Anyway. More pressing matters. “I need you to talk me down off the ledge, bro. Like really fucking fast before I kick a door down and fuck myself to hell.”

“Whoa,” my brother laughs, “give me a minute to grab some water, I’m dying, coach made me do extra sprints.” A few seconds later. “Okay, explain.”

I do. Theo knows everything about my relationship with Laney and how miserable I’ve been.

Of course he narrows in on one part. “Did you screw those two chicks?”

“I’m good, but even I can’t bang two women within the space of a minute. I just told them to walk up the stairs with me.”

“You wanted Delaney to see so you could hurt her.” Again, he knows my style. “Did it work?”

“Yeah.” And I hate that it’s me who made her throw up on the goddamn street and put hurt in her eyes.

I should hate her, but I don’t.

“And now you wanna go in there and play doctors and nurses.”

“Yeah. I’m fucking shaking, Theo.”

“Man, you got it bad. What’s that feel like?”

“The worst feeling in the world. And the best feeling in the world.”

The asshole I claim as my eldest brother and best friend starts hooting like a hyena. “Shit, only you’d fall in love in high school, so you miss out on college pussy.”

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