You've Been Replaced, First Love novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Alley
Kendrick stood in the doorway with the sapphire ring still wet in his fist and his tie pulled sideways.
Behind him the music had started up again, tinny and brave.
"You stood there with him," he said. "You stood there, and eighty people looked at you, and not one of them looked at me."
"Annora did that."
"Annora did that because of you."
"She did it with your own sentence, Kendrick."
"She heard about the window." His voice cracked and climbed. "She wouldn't have come if you hadn't made me look like a fool in the Sentinel."
I almost felt sorry for him.
He was explaining a sinking ship by blaming the iceberg's posture.
His eyes slid past me and found Maddox, who was leaning on the fender of his truck with his arms crossed.
Something in Kendrick's face went flat and hot.
"You," he said. "You've been standing at my bar for three weeks, waiting."
"For my money," Maddox said.
"You wanted this. You wanted her in your loft in my shirt."
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