“You wasted years of my life,” Kiana retorts, taking a step forward.
“No Kiana,youwasted years of your life,” he says with a headshake. “I tried to break it off multiple times.”
“Yet you could never do it,” she says with an arrogant expression on her face. “Guess I was just that good, huh?” Kiana’s eyes dart over to Tessa who is standing in the corner, scowling harder than she ever has in her life. Tessa stands up taller and maintains eye contact, refusing to let Kiana believe she’s intimidated.
“Oh please,” Tristan says with a snort. “If you think you’re any different from any other jersey chaser around here, you’re mistaken. I knew you would do some crazy shit like this, that’s why I let you hang around for so long.”
“Four years, Tristan!” she screams. “Four years and no ring? That would make any woman go crazy!”
Tessa winces and looks at her shoes at the mention of Tristan getting another woman a ring, even if it is a figment of Kiana’s imagination.
“I never promised you shit,” he says with a laugh. “You made that up in your head. I never once led you on or made you believe that’s where my mind was at all.”
“And you think this skinny little blonde bitch is gonna satisfy you?” Kiana points an accusatory finger at Tessa, and Tristan immediately steps in front of her, blocking her from Kiana’s view.
“This is like a real-life soap opera,” Brett whispers in Coach Rice’s ear, whose only response is an unimpressed grunt.
“Don’t you fucking look at her,” Tristan says sternly.
“What? She can’t fight for herself?” Kiana rolls her eyes.
Tessa instantly pushes around Tristan and looks at Kiana with a glare so intense it could possibly start a fire.
“I absolutely can,” she says. “But what you’re missing is that I don’t need to fight you. You are so far beneath me, it’s hilarious. Do you have any idea how low what you did is? Forget about how illegal it is, but it’s just downright evil.”
“I don’t care about being evil, I care about winning.”
“Newsflash, bitch,” Tessa says, yanking her arm away from the hand that Tristan had secured around her and stepping forward. “I win. You fucking lose. Maybe that will finally sink in when you’re sitting in jail.”
Kiana scoffs and steps forward, challenging Tessa, and Tristan steps between them instantly.
“Don’t even think about laying a finger on her,” Tristan whispers menacingly.
“And you!” Tessa steps around Kiana and points a finger at Dr. Hines. “You are losing your license. And for what? To get your dick sucked by this run of the mill pass around?”
Kiana gasps dramatically and gets back into Tessa’s line of sight.
“How dare you-”
“Are you really going to pretend like you weren’t just sucking this geriatric man’s dick?” Tessa asks, blue eyes burning so brightly with anger that it makes Kiana take a step backward.
“You should ask Tristan about the head I give,” Kiana says with an evil smile, eyes flitting over to Tristan who simply rolls his eyes. “He used to tell me it was-”
Slap
The sound of Tessa’s opened hand smacking against Kiana’s cheek was so loud in the room it literally echoed off of the walls, all the men standing in the room making a quiet “oooh” noise and grimacing at what will surely be a bruise on Kiana’s face later.
Kiana’s hand flies up to her face, her mouth hung open in shock, which only fuels Tessa more, and she steps forward quickly to get another hit in.
Until Tristan’s strong embrace wraps around her middle and pulls her back.
“Okay, killer,” he says into her ear with a chuckle and squeezing her waist. “Let’s take a timeout.”
“So what’s the next steps, then?” Tessa yells impatiently, looking around the room and trying to get out of Tristan’s strong embrace, which he isn’t letting up on. “We have the proof on paper and a verbal confession heard by multiple witnesses.”
“Yeah, uh,” Brett speaks up, shaking his head from the drama that just unfolded in front of him and turning back to the very big issue at hand. “I’ll have to contact law enforcement and the owner but-”
“I also want it known,” Tristan’s lawyer speaks up, “That we will absolutely be pressing charges. And I want the truth released to the media first thing in the morning.”
