Page 118 of Wrecking Us
Thankfully, Mandy is staying in the same hotel as me, though she’s on a different floor. When I get to her room, I hand her herheels she forced me to carry. Not that there was much resistance on my part.
She looks up at me with glassy eyes.
“Are you in love with him?” I ask.
“Who? Alex?” She laughs, but it’s not genuine. She might be drunk, but she’s not dumb.
“No. Stone.” I don’t know why I ask, maybe because on some level, I know. Maybe I just want to focus on someone else’s problems instead of my own.
I have the strangest desire to tell her everything.
About Hudson and I.
About applying for Power Play’s administrative position.
About how I don’t want to play these games anymore because it just doesn’t feel the same.
We’ve always pretended to be together because it worked for us, but now…
Now it feels like we’re breaking up, but we’ve never been together.
“Yes,” she says honestly.
“Does he love you?” I ask, my voice careful.
She twists her lips. “I don’t know.”
Her words hit me harder than they should. I pull her into my arms and hug her and she starts to cry.
She sets her hand on my chest and her fake ring catches the light. I take her hand in mine, my thumb brushing over the sparkly stone. It’s cubic zirconia, but it looks legit.
“Maybe you should ask him?”
Mandy drops her hand, rubbing her ring.
“I’m not sure that’ll change anything, Trey.”
“Why not?” I ask, suddenly feeling more vulnerable and drunk than ever. All my feelings, the unspoken ones, push forth.
“You said they broke up, right?”
She nods. “He said they did, yeah…”
“Did he say why?”
She shakes her head, tears filling her eyes.
“No. I… we didn’t get… that far…” She averts my eyes, her cheeks blushing.
I let out a chuckle.
“So that’s why you werebusy?” I shove her playfully.
She laughs. It’s genuine.
“No, I mean… maybe…” She runs a hand over her face.
“It’s complicated…”
