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I can’t believe there was a time I thought this shit was cute.

Chapter 59

Vincent

Two days after Shemarievicted all my shit, I’m laid up at the Four Seasons trying to figure out my next move.

Benny’s words keep echoing in my head to the point where I’m starting to wonder if I fucked up.

I was lost. I didn’t think I’d even be coming home. The only other person there to cling to, the only other personalive, was Ari, and we just so happened to give in to the attraction. If that’s cheating, okay, I’ll take that L, but I legit didn’t see it like that. I wasn’t trying to be sneaky. I was trying to fuckin’ survive.

That’s what I told myself, anyway.

Maybe it was always a lie.

My phone buzzes.

It’s Shemari calling.

Again.

I ignore it. Again.

Then I get a text from Ari.

My angel

Will you please tell your fiancée to leave me the fuck alone?

I sit straight up and grab the remote to turn the game off. I call Ari, but she sends me straight to voicemail.

Fuck.

Now I gotta call Shemari.

“Oh, now you wanna call me,” is her greeting.

“Yeah. What’s goin’ on?”

“Did she call you?”

I scrub a hand down my face. “What’s goin’ on, Mari? Fuck did you do?”

“I told the bitch the truth, that’s what I did.”

I sigh through my nose, shaking my head at the bullshit. “Lemme ask you something.”

“What?”

“Do you actually love me?”

She pauses, and it’s quiet long enough to give me my answer. Then she says, “I’m wearing your ring, ain’t I?”

“That don’t answer my question.”

“Bae, I love what we have together. And yes, I loveyou.”

“I don’t know if I believe that," I say. "If you loved me, I doubt you’d be tossing my shit all over the lawn.”

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