Forgive Me by Melanie Walker Read Free Book Online Page B

without the hubby.
    I was going to have the last word here, not her. If my last word was a cheap fangirl then so be it. Payback was a bitch. Cassa had killed me just a few short months after I left she was married to another man. Her bed wasn't even cold by the time she had a new man in it. I don't know why she wanted to be close to my dad, or why her new man wasn't here. Maybe it was her way of slapping me in the face for leaving.
    If I'm honest with myself, then I'm man enough to admit that I am glad he had Cassa and that she had been at his side when his body stopped fighting. But in the end, Cassa still didn't know the half of it. She had been played by the old man just like he was. Maybe it was my dad playing her and not the other way around. He was the one that scared me off taking my girl with me. He was the one fighting me that night before we were supposed to leave.
    She didn't know that I had to leave, had to leave her behind. TAT had no guarantee's of success and Sass was in school ready with a year left to graduate. We both had dreams and mine was in Hollywood making TAT a success and hers was always in Gig, happy and free. I had always planned on giving her time before coming home and explaining why I left. I had bought the ring she deserved, it had her name all over it and I bought it the minute we went platinum. Two days later I found out she was married and that fucking ring went over the Gig Harbor bridge, tossed without thought or concern and enough bitterness to fuel me to this moment. I had a fangirl in my bed every night there after... and she had a husband.
    Fuck that. Fuck the man she replaced me with. Fuck my old man too.
    “ Go home to your husband Sass.” I called after her. Within seconds the entire party went dead quiet and nothing but the crack and pop of the fire filled the night. Cassa had stopped walking, her back still to me. Chad and Noah both looked like they would kill me if they could get to me but it was Cal who broke the silence.
    “ Fuck, Shame just stop man.” Cal made his way to my side ass I watched literally all my friends step to Cassa's side.
    Fucking traitors. All of them.
    Deciding for once in my life to be the better man, I turned to walk away when Cassa spoke up. At first she just stared at me, like she couldn't believe I had just said that to her. Of course I did. She married another man before I could come back with the proof I could always make her dreams come true.
    I had somehow made her hate me in a span of five minutes. Too bad I didn't give a flying fuck. I might once the pain of seeing her perfect and flawless face again wore off.
    “ I’m not married anymore Shame. I divorced Cory and it was finalized seven months ago.” I looked around the fire at all my friends, my brothers and hated each one individually for knowing she was divorced and not telling me. They had chosen to protect Cassa's secret and leave me in the dark. I also saw the disgust at the mention of Corey Noxx, and at least that was redeemable. That was before she went right for the jugular and told me why they all hated him so much. Before she shattered all the trust I had in all of them for the secret they kept from me.
    “ He slapped me one night when I left the house without permission.” She eyed me while she spoke, my rage at her confession started to create a deafening roar in my ears. “I left because Dr. Baker called me and told me your dad tried to drive himself to the hospital after taking a bad fall and hit his head on the counter. He wrapped his car around a pole on the way.” Her bitchiness as she spoke made my skin crawl. She didn’t even look like Cassa. She cocked her head to the side thoughtfully. “Remember you flew in from Alabama the next day.” Her point made she turned and walked out of the yard.

    Shamus
    I followed her out the side gate letting it slam behind me, leaving all my friends behind. “What the fuck do you mean he hit you?” My voice was thick with sorrow