Wilted by Mia Michelle Read Free Book Online Page B

angry eyes glare at me. The pain and betrayal in them are almost more than I can handle. Has she seriously just been with that fucker? No. She couldn’t have. She’s just trying to piss me off. Just as I’m about to grab her and shake some sense into her, her voice interrupts me.
    “You do remember your way out, right? It’s not changed since you walked out on me the last time. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take a long hot shower. Evan sure left me sweaty.” Her eyes stare into mine as she loosens the belt and dropping the black robe from her body, she bares her body to me. “You’re welcome to join me, but I’m sure you wouldn’t want his sloppy seconds.” Turning her back to me, she disappears down the hall.
    It’s true? No!
    Paralyzed, I’m too shocked and leveled to move. Wave after wave of pain rushes over me. I don’t know how to survive this. I feel like the wind has been knocked completely out of my chest. Gasping for air, I can’t breathe. It’s all I can do to reach for the wall next to me before my trembling knees give way. As I bend over to catch my breath, a gold cufflink on the floor beside the foyer table leg catches my eye. I know who it belongs to before I even pick it up to see the initial EP engraved on the top.
    Hate. It’s all I can see, all I can feel. I want to wrap my hands around his neck and feel every bone in it break. Furiously, I sling the cufflink across the apartment. Sweeping my arm across the table, I send all the pictures crashing to the floor. Tiny fragments of glass fly everywhere around me. Every part of me wants to tear down these walls, to rip every inch of this place to shreds. That’s how betrayed I feel by what she’s done. I want to destroy her the way she’s just destroyed me.
    Taking a step back, I revel in the way the glass crunches beneath my feet. I kick over the familiar red wooden frame and freeze when I see the picture resting inside. I took this of her last month when we flew to Sebastian’s house in Cabo San Lucas. My shredded heart sinks. I can smell the coconut oil on her body and I taste her flawless, sun-kissed skin. We’d had so much fun making love in the ocean that weekend. We didn’t even care if people on the beach knew what we were doing. Anytime we were together, we were each other’s world. Nothing else mattered. Or at least, I had thought.
    Fuck her!
    Slamming the door behind me, I walk out of her apartment for the last time. As I hit the button on the elevator panel, I take a deep breath. Just like the closing doors in front of me, I shut off the emotions in my body. Kylie Reynolds may still be in my heart, but I am damn determined to fuck her out of my mind.
     

KYLIE
    With the shower wall supporting me, I press my forehead against the Spanish tiles and cry harder than I ever have in all of my life. My heart hurts so much at this moment that I don’t think I can take anything else. When Nik walked out on me the last time, I didn’t think I could hurt any more than I had that day, but I’d been so very wrong. Nothing can match the agony I feel right now. I don’t know how to survive without him.
    His words play through my head on a constant loop and only deepen my hurt. How could he sleep with a girl he just met at a club? I should have known he would never be able to keep his dick in his pants. Did I mean anything to him at all? I’d told him I loved him.
    My body shakes and my trembling legs fold beneath me. As I slide down to the shower floor, I wrap my arms around my body and allow the scorching hot water to cascade over me. Pain. It’s all I feel anymore. It’s all I ever feel.

    As I wrap a towel around my body, I peek out of my bedroom, praying he’s gone now. I can’t deal with seeing him. I need to get to work, but I have a feeling that Evan will expect me to be late, especially since we just spent all night working together on a project. His presentation in Los Angeles is this week and I helped him with