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seeing that you’ve hopped into bed with someone else.”
    “Seriously?” he barked, jabbing his thumb into his chest as he leaned forward. “You walked out on me how long ago? I asked you to marry me, and you said you still had feelings for my brother. My brother!”
    She stepped back. He could see the hesitation. Maybe she feared she was messing with a sleeping lion.
    “I called you over and over,” he said. “I waited like a fool for you to come back to me. I begged you. I would have crawled through hell for you.” He squeezed his fists in the air, his jaw tense. Then he stepped away, running his hands through his hair. When he looked back at Jill, she was watching him with such sadness, a tear running down her face.
    “You’re right. I wasn’t being fair, but I was being honest.” Her voice trembled, and she hiccupped, fighting against tears.
    Jill was a crier. He’d spent many a night holding her in his arms, trying to soothe her tears away. She wasn’t as strong as Chris. He couldn’t help comparing them and seeing all the shortcomings in Jill that he’d never really seen before. Now he realized he didn’t know what he wanted. He’d fought for Jill for so long, believing she was the one, what he needed, but Logan had said long ago, at a time when he was morning his own lost love, We always want what we can’t have .
    “You were with my brother?” he asked, though he already knew she was. She’d told him as much, but for how long? From the moment she walked away from him?
    “Yes!” she cried out.
    “How long?” he spit out through his clenched teeth. He needed her to say it, to tell the truth, all of it.
    “After I left you. I called him. I’ve been with him since after Christmas.”
    “So all this time I was calling you, you’ve been with my brother. Did he know it was me calling, making a fool of myself? Were you two laughing at me, at what a joke I am?”
    She didn’t say a word. She touched her fingers to her mouth. She was shaking.
    “Ah, I see. Of course you told him.”
    She gazed down at the ground, embarrassed. She should be. He hated that shit, especially from Jill, after all he’d done for her, being with her, supporting her emotionally after what his brother had done. Yet she still loved Samuel.
    He actually laughed, but it sounded cruel to his own ears. “So why are you here, showing up in Phoenix at my hotel, then embarrassing my friend as I try to move on? What is it you want from me?”
    She took a shaky breath as she glanced away, maybe deciding what she needed to say. “I’m pregnant.”
    “Fuck!” he shouted, fisting his hands.
    She took a step back. Was she scared of his reaction? He stared at her, hard and unforgiving.

Chapter 14
    “Thanks for picking me up.” Chris wondered how she looked as she climbed into Myles’s red Corvette. His gaze swept over her with disapproval, making her feel worse than she already did. He pressed the gas and pulled away faster than he needed to, which told her loud and clear he knew what she’d been doing, and she was probably about to get an earful.
    He changed gears and pressed the gas down so she was pinned to the seatback. Yeah, this car had power, and her brother was obviously pissed. Maybe they’d be at her place in no time and she could hurry inside, shutting out everyone else.
    “I’m sorry. I didn’t want to call, but I didn’t have enough cash for a cab.” She could have walked to a bank machine, but she didn’t know where the closest one was, and she could have been walking for a long way in the dark in shoes that were starting to hurt her feet. The way she was dressed this time of night, with her hair looking as if she’d just gotten out of bed, well…she didn’t want the looks she knew she’d get.
    “What happened?” he asked as he changed lanes, driving faster than he should.
    “Nothing I really want to talk about.”
    “So who’s staying here, Chris, and what the fuck are you doing popping into