Oh, he’d give her more.
Instead, he tore into her.
“You set this up. You set me up! You know that part of my life is sacred. You know I protect it fiercely, and you’ve made a mockery of it!”
Was that what he really believed?
That she’d do this intentionally?
He kept going.
“I walked in andHEwas there! How could you do this to me? I’m broken enough, and I’m damaged beyond repair, and you think this is funny? A joke? You drop me into this situation and let me get hurt?AGAIN?”
Her heart ached for him.
Why?
There were tears in his eyes.
Hurting him was the last thing she ever would do, and she knew he was big angry to forget that. Elizabeth loved few things in her life.
Her husbands.
Her children.
Her Marines.
Her job.
He was two out of four.
“Michael,” she began.
Only, he cut her off.
There was no way he was listening to her make an excuse for this. To him, this was inexcusable.
PERIOD.
“NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!My life is not a game to be played behind my back!”
She let him vent.
“Instead, it’s a pathetic nightmare to begin with, but to throwHIM! HIM!At me! That was cruel, and I’ll never forgive you for breaking me!” he said, knowing people were staring at him as he lost his shit in that town’s square.
Only, he didn’t care.
Not.
At.
All.
This was all kinds of terrible, and he’d been betrayed by two people, and now, aTHIRD.
And this one hurt as much.
“I trusted you with those secrets, and you hunted him down to play this game? To throw him at me? To make me bleed? He was theONLYperson I ever loved like that, and now, you’ve hurt me in ways you’ll never know!”
