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He sticks his fingers through his hair harshly, tugging it “Hayley,” he hesitates for a beat “I was young, and stupid, and you deserved so much better than how I treated you I’m sorry for that, really, I am, but I’m not ready for this”

My eyes fixate on Kyle’s face, and for the first ti The irony that it’s towards the father of my child doesn’t escape me

I fold my arms acrossKyle, and I have no intention of starting now”

Incredulity flashes across his face “So, you’re not expecting me to stick around?”

His expression is hopeful and a sht there was a tiny chance he’d want to know Ari But I know better Kyle was never the type of person to think of anyone but himself and I’m naive to think otherwise Can I bla? I don’t know, but even now that he knows about her, he still wants to run Which is the reason I never told him in the first place

I bracethe hurt of the words I’m about to say out loud “No, I don’t I never expected you to, but I thought er the selfish jerk you alere”

“Hayley - ”

My hand comes up and Kyle’s mouth shuts “You don’t deserve to know her,” I say “I’m not even sure I deserve her, but for some reason God choseto be there for every h for both of us We don’t need you, Kyle We never have”

I open the door and wait for Kyle to leave He stops in front of me “For what it’s worth, I really am sorry, Hayley, and you’re twice the person I will ever be”

I close the door, and slide down until I’m on the floor A few tears escape, but I wipe them away quickly before I have to walk into the kitchen The last twelve hours swirl around inbreath

I’ve been let down by the people closest to me more times than I can count, but I won’t be one of those people on Ari’s list

Chapter 20

~ Cameron ~

I stop randood tenabout what it is that I want to say to Hayley I know I need to apologize because I treated her poorly afterafter what happened at the diner last night I can’t even i and made the decision to drive over here, whether she wanted to see o froo, but if I don’t at least try talk to her, I will never knohat could be The truth is, Hayley has consuh the last feeeks, helping uilt, too I thought I was doing the right thing by pushing her away, because shewas the last thing I wanted to do But I see now that pushing her away, hurting her, wasn’t the right thing at all Which is why I’ain if she’ll let me She needs to kno I feel about her, and Ari too, for that matter

I climb from my truck and walk around the front just as the front door opens It’s Kyle, and he looks happy about so back together? Not on my watch Hayley and Ari are mine

Kyle seessmile on his face falters

“What are you doing here?” I ask I don’t like this fucker one bit, and it has nothing to do with the fact that hiatecrashedto do with the conversation I overheard when I walked back into the diner after Hayley left Just thinking about what they put Hayley through makes me want to fuck him up seven ways from Sunday and not think twice about it

“Taking care of business,” he replies, puffing out his chest a little Really? “Why do you care? I thought you and Hayley were over?”