Fighting for My Best Friend (Fated #4) by Hazel Kelly Read Free Book Online Page A

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perked up my ears, freezing when I heard my name.
    “Were they Lucy’s panties?”
    “What?”
    “Just tell me? Were they Lucy’s panties that I found in the
apartment?”
    Silence.
    “Well?!” She sounded like a rabid animal. “Were they?”
    “No. They weren’t Lucy’s panties, okay?”
    I swallowed.
    “Not that it matters,” he said. “Because who I sleep with is
none of your business anymore.”
    “Is that why you brought her here? So you guys can fuck now that
I’m finally out of the way?!”
    “No.”
    “It must have been such a relief to get me out of the picture!”
    “No, Chels. It’s not like that.”
    “What is it like then? Enlighten me? Cause she sure was making
eyes at you when I walked up!”
    “Making eyes?! What? You’ve got it all wrong.”
    “I’m listening.”
    “We’re not together, okay? I’m not with her.”
    “I want to believe you.”
    “She’s a friend of my families. That’s all. I brought her
because after we broke up, I had to bring someone.”
    “So you’re not a thing- you and Lucy?”
    “No. We’re not a thing.”
    I took a step away from the door and then another.
    Was he ashamed that he’d slept with me? Was I crazy that I
thought it meant something? Was I genuinely a rebound like I was so afraid of?
    And when was she in his apartment to see my panties?
    If they were even mine?
    I didn’t know what to think. Either she’d been at his place
since I slept with him, which he’d kept from me, or he’d been sleeping with
other women since the night we spent together.
    How could I be so stupid?!
    Of course he was sleeping with other people. He just got Tinder
for crying out loud. I felt sick. How could he give me such a hard time for being
deceitful when he’d been fucking other girls this whole time?
    No wonder he didn’t call me for weeks.
    I thought I was in the dog house, but really he was just too
busy sleeping around to get back to me. Cause now that he’d had me, there was
no mystery left.
    I was as dispensable as the rest of them.
    In fact, if he hadn’t promised Claire I would do her hair, he
probably would’ve already cut me out completely.
    Because Aiden and I, we weren’t a thing. 
    And I was a fool for thinking we ever would be.
     
     
     

Chapter 10:
Aiden
     
     
    “I’m so embarrassed,” Chelsea said, bringing one hand to her
forehead.
    “You don’t need to be embarrassed.”
    “I thought if I came here and you saw me and-”
    “What?”
    “I thought you might take me back.” She slumped on a velvet
cushioned conference chair. “I know I don’t deserve you, but I thought if we
could just have one more day together, you would remember what you liked about
me and not hate me so much.”
    “I don’t hate you,” I said, grabbing a chair and setting it down
beside her.
    “You don’t?”
    “No,” I said, reconciling myself to the fact that I was dealing
with a crazy person. “I just want you to be happy, and you’ll never be happy
with me.”
    Her shoulders slumped over so I could see the bones in them. “I
was once though.”
    “I know,” I said. “And we had some good times.”
    She nodded.
    “But it was never going to work out. You deserve to be with
someone even richer and better looking than me.”
    She laughed and looked up dragging a finger under each eye.
    “Seriously, Chelse. You’re a gorgeous girl, and I know you think
we were happy, but you wouldn’t have been cruising for dates on Tinder if you
were.”
    She pursed her lips.
    “Ya know?”
    She reached out and put a hand on my knee. “I’m sorry I hurt
you.”
    “It’s okay,” I said. “I’ll be fine eventually, but only if you
let me move on.”
    She swallowed.
    “Does that make sense?”
    “Yeah.”
    “Is it fair to say that I was good to you, that I did a lot of
nice things for you while we were together?”
    “Yeah.”
    “So can you do something nice for me, and give me space so I can
get over you?”
    She sighed.
    “Will you do