I Slept With My Ex's Best Friend novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: One Question
Nobody in the ballroom moved.
Somebody's phone was still recording with the flash on, a little white star in the dark by the windows.
Tanner lowered his glass.
He was smiling.
"There it is," he said into the microphone. "Loyalty."
I didn't look at him.
I looked at Jace.
His hand was still flat on the tablecloth.
His face was white, and he didn't look away from me once.
I had a hundred questions.
I could feel all of them stacked up in my throat.
Why. How many times. Did you laugh about it after. Did you think about me when you hung up.
Only one of them mattered.
"Did you know where he was," I said, "when you said it?"
My voice carried.
The room was that quiet.
Jace didn't make me wait.
"Yes."
I nodded.
I stood up.
My chair scraped on the floor, and two hundred people heard it.
"Linnea," Jace said.
"Don't."
He stopped.
He didn't get up and he didn't reach for me.
He just sat there and let me go, which was the only right thing he'd done all night.
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