Page 45 of Bourbon Deceit
“No, uh, I can just, um come back later,” Pepper said as she continued to look around.
Her wandering eyes were driving me crazy so I looked around too. What was going on?
Realization hit me when I saw Pepper’s purse on Kace’s nightstand—it was stuffed with her Jett Girl lingerie, and there were three opened condom wrappers on the floor.
“Oh my God!” I shouted as Kace’s hand flung around my mouth and Pepper grabbed her purse and headed for the door.
“I’ll take care of this,” Kace told Pepper. Without a word, she closed the door behind her, leaving me with me alone with Kace.
I tore myself away from Kace and looked at the guilty expression on his face.
“What. The. Fuck?”
Running his hands through his hair, he said, “It isn’t what it looks like.”
“Oh, is that right? Well, it looked like you fucked Pepper three ways to dawn, am I wrong?”
“Yes, it was four.” Kace smirked.
I whacked his chest and said, “Does Jett know?”
“No, and you can’t fucking tell him.”
“You can’t be serious . . .”
Kace got in my face and said, “I’m dead fucking serious,” no more joking around now.
“Why would he care?”
“Because, he would.”
Well, that didn’t make me feel good. Jett shouldn’t care, because he was with me now, right? Isn’t that how it worked?
“You’re not making me feel very good about myself right now,” I admitted.
Kace blew out a frustrated breath and started to pace the length of his room.
“It’s nothing against you, Lo. Jett just wouldn’t be very fond of his buddy fucking a girl he used to.”
“Then why did you do it?”
Stopping mid-stride, Kace turned and looked at me. “I don’t fucking know. She was drunk last night, I was . . .sorry for myself, so we fucked.”
“Why were you feeling sorry for yourself?” I pressed.
“I don’t want to fucking talk about it,” Kace snapped. “Just keep your mouth shut.”
“Well, aren’t you a ray of sunshine?”
“It’s not easy dealing with your privileged ass all the time.”
“I’m not privileged.”
“Keep telling yourself that, sweetheart.”
“You’re just jealous Jett claimed me first.”
Why the fuck I said that, I had no clue, but it hit hard with Kace, because he looked up at me and the stone-cold man I’d been dealing with was gone. In his place was a man with damaged eyes.
