Chapter 82

Brian turned off the light, escaped from the room, and shut the door. He headed for the nearest exit, his body numb, his brain numb and his lungs gasping for breath. He hadn’t been wrong after all. She was going back to Nathan and now he had proof. He burst through an exit and stood in the chill night dragging in lungfuls of air, trying desperately to calm his racing heart. Cassie had chosen Nathan over him. Nathan. The guy who could only offer her one weekend a month, the guy who had married someone else, the guy who treated her like shit. He was better off without her. He’d never thought Cassie was stupid, but if she could choose a dickhead like Nathan over everything he had been offering her, then… Fuck. He wanted to scream. He wanted to yell and kick and punch and have a tantrum because once again Nathan fucking Heart had taken something that belonged to him. Cassie had been his. From the moment he’d sat down beside her in that bar and she’d mumbled something about his beard, she’d