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thought when she pulled up in front of her house. A familiar car was parked on the street. The guy leaning against the car straightened as she drove by.
    Speak of the devil, she thought grimly.
    Drew waved as she circled around to the garage in back. She ignored him and parked, but he was waiting when she walked to the door and she had a bad feeling that ignoring him wasn’t going to make him go away.

CHAPTER FIVE
    “GO AWAY,” Nicole said by way of greeting.
    “You don’t mean that.”
    “Amazingly I do.”
    She thought about standing on the porch and refusing to go in the house, but wasn’t excited about providing entertainment for her neighbors.
    She went inside, knowing he would follow, walked to the center of the room, then faced him.
    “Say what you have to say and get out.”
    “That’s not very friendly.”
    “What a surprise.”
    She was pleased to see that the gouge on his cheek wasn’t healing all that fast. The last time Drew had come calling, it had been the middle of the night. Claire had still been staying there. She’d attacked him with a high-heeled shoe that had done an impressive amount of damage.
    Drew didn’t seem bothered by her lack of welcome. He smiled at her. “I’ve missed you, babe, and I know you’ve missed me.”
    He still had the ability to leave her speechless, she thought, stunned by his arrogance. “What am I supposed to miss? You sleeping with my sister?”
    He threw up his hands. “When are you going to let that go?”
    “I’m not sure. Maybe when I feel as if either of you are the least bit remorseful about what you did. You’ve never apologized or admitted you did anything wrong.”
    Jesse hadn’t. She kept complaining that Nicole wouldn’t believe her. So far she hadn’t heard anything that would excuse their actions.
    “It wasn’t what you think,” Drew grumbled. “You’re taking it all wrong.”
    That made Nicole wish she knew how to throw a knife. Or hit really, really hard. “You were in my sister’s bedroom, on her bed, kissing her. Her shirt was off and your hand was on her bare breast. What about that isn’t what I think?”
    Drew shifted uncomfortably. “I made a mistake. I’m sorry.”
    “Sorry isn’t good enough.”
    “This is so typical,” he said, his voice getting angry. “You take everything so seriously. Yeah, I made a mistake. People do that. Even you. I told you Jesse shouldn’t be here after we were married.”
    “After you moved into my house and no longer had to pay rent, you mean.”
    “Don’t do this, Nicole. Don’t be hard.”
    What was she supposed to be? Happy?
    “If Jesse hadn’t been here…” he began.
    “So you’re saying it’s my fault you were tempted and gave in to that temptation. That you have no responsibility for what you did?”
    “You’re twisting my words. You always do that.”
    She looked at the man she’d married. He was reasonably good-looking, but he didn’t make her heart beat faster. He’d been a mistake—one she would be recovering from for a while.
    “You need to take me back,” he told her.
    She shook her head. “There’s no way you just said that.”
    “It’s true. I love you. No one is going to love you like me.”
    He was trying to hurt her. Or maybe just scare her. “People in love don’t cheat.”
    “Sure they do.”
    “I don’t.” She shook her head. “You can’t make this right. I can’t trust you, Drew, and I don’t want to try.”
    His expression hardened. “You’re going to be alone forever. Is that what you want?”
    She knew she shouldn’t listen to him. The fact that he was speaking her deepest fears didn’t make them the truth.
    “I don’t believe that,” she said with a conviction she didn’t feel. “You’re a loser, Drew. My mistake was hooking up with you in the first place.”
    “My mistake was trying to make it work. No one’s surprised I cheated on you, Nicole. You’re not easy to love. You’re closed off and distant and you can be a