but isn’t it great?” she asks just as the woman on the sound system starts talking again. “It’s so alive!”
A little too alive for me, but I’m here, so I don’t want to ruin her time. Smiling, I point up toward the ceiling and say, “I think they’re about to announce something.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, tonight at the main bar here we have the most delicious trio you’ll ever see. If you haven’t met them already, here are the twins Katelyn and Kylie, and sandwiched between them like you know he loves being is the famous, well actually, infamous Cade! Give them a hand and let them know how much you love all three of them!”
The crowd erupts into cheers again, and I crane my neck to see the three beautiful bartenders just described. The twins are stunning with bodies to die for, but I can’t see the other one. Just hearing that name makes me wish my Cade was here with me right now.
My Cade. I like how that sounds. But if we could be together right now instead of me being here and him being at work, I’d rather if we were at his place enjoying each other and the silence I never realized I loved until about twenty minutes ago.
Meadow grabs my hand and tugs me away from the wall. “Honey, we have to go. This place is getting too crowded. I feel like we’re going to get crushed at any moment. Let’s leave and call it a night, okay?”
I love that idea, so I hurry to keep up with her, happy I’ll get some fresh air and elbow room once we leave this bar. All around me, people cheer and the sound system begins to play the striptease song. Curious, I look back, wondering if those women actual take their clothes off when they bartend, and what I see stops me cold.
Meadow tries to keep me walking toward the door, but I yank her back next to me as I watch one of the twins and Cade standing on the bar. My Cade. His shirt is wide open, and the woman lowers herself down until she’s eyelevel with his zipper. As the crowd cheers her on, she stuffs her hands into his black pants and moves her face toward him. I can’t see what she’s doing, but everyone around us screams in excitement.
“Honey, why couldn’t you just leave when I wanted to?” Meadow asks sadly as tears fill my eyes.
I shake my head in disbelief. Cade doesn’t look unhappy that this gorgeous woman with enormous breasts is licking his stomach or whatever she’s doing. I can’t tell, but I can imagine what a woman does when her face is that close to his crotch.
He lied to me. He said he had to work at the club he manages. He never said he was a bartender and put on whatever the hell kind of show this is for a living. I asked him specifically what he was doing tonight since I didn’t want to say yes to Meadow to come to this place if he and I could be together.
Now I know what he had to do that was better than spending time with me.
The woman stands up to her full height and takes a bow on the bar while everyone around us cheers. All I want to do is leave. That and throw up as the memory of finding Malcolm with that woman in the bed we shared fills my head.
All Cade had to do was tell me the truth. Now I can’t help but wonder why he lied. Is he with this woman? It sure looks like they know each other well. Was he talking to her the other night? Was the name Dad in his phone just some decoy to hide that he’s with her?
The infamous Cade. Sounds like I’m the only person in this bar who doesn’t know who Cade March really is.
God, I’m so stupid. All along, I wondered why he would ever want to bother with me. I pushed that doubt and fear away because Dr. Thorpe and Meadow keep telling me it’s not real.
But it is fucking real. It’s real and it’s standing on the bar in front of me, right now.
Meadow tugs my arm to leave, but right before I start toward the door, I make eye contact with Cade. I instantly see the guilt in his expression. He lied, and he knows he’s been caught.
All he had to do was not lie. Why did he lie? Did he lie about everything?
“Come on, Hailey!” she yells, and this time I don’t try to fight her.
I don’t want to be here anymore. The person I thought was a fun guy who genuinely liked me isn’t who he pretended to be.
He lied, and I don’t know why.
I just know this hurts.
CADE AND HAILEY’S STORY CONCLUDES IN INFAMOUS (NeXt #2)
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K.M. Scott writes contemporary romance stories of sexy, intense, and unforgettable love. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, she's been in love with romance since reading her first romance novel in junior high (she was a very curious girl!). Under her Gabrielle Bisset name, she write paranormal and historical romance. She lives in Pennsylvania with a herd of animals and when she's not writing can be found reading or feeding her TV addiction.
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Books by K.M. Scott:
The Heart of Stone Series
Crash Into Me (Heart of Stone #1)
Fall Into Me (Heart of Stone #2)
Give In To Me (Heart of Stone #3)
Heart of Stone Volume One
Ever After (Heart of Stone #4)
A Heart of Stone Christmas (Heart of Stone #5)
Return To Me (Heart of Stone #6)
Forever With Me (Heart of Stone #7)
Heart of Stone Volume Two
Hard As Stone (Heart of Stone #8)
Set In Stone (Heart of Stone #9)
Silent As A Stone (Heart of Stone #10)
Heart of Stone Volume Three
All of Me (Heart of Stone #11)
Club X Series
Temptation (Club X #1)
Surrender (Club X #2)
Possession (Club X #3)
Satisfaction (Club X #4)
Acceptance (Club X #5)
NeXt Series
Notorious (NeXt #1)
Infamous (NeXt #2)
Corrupted Love Trilogy
If I Dream (Corrupted Love #1)
If You Fight (Corrupted Love #2)
If We Fall (Corrupted Love #3)
Addicted To You Series
Crave (Addicted To You #1)
Adore (Addicted To You #2)
Shatter (Addicted To You #3)
Claim (Addicted To You #4)
Project Artemis Series
In The Darkness (Project Artemis #1)
After The Storm (Project Artemis #2)
Behind The Scenes (Project Artemis #3)
Finding The One Series
Hard Work (Finding The One #1)
Big Love (Finding The One #2)
Sweet Things
Private Secretary
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Books by K.M. Scott writing as Gabrielle Bisset:
Sons of Navarus Series
Vampire Dreams Revamped (A Sons of Navarus Prequel)
Blood Avenged (Sons of Navarus #1)
Blood Betrayed (Sons of Navarus #2)
Longing (A Sons of Navarus Short Story)
Blood Spirit (Sons of Navarus #3)
The Deepest Cut (A Sons of Navarus Short Story)
Blood Prophecy (Sons of Navarus #4)
Blood Craving (Sons of Navarus #5)
Blood Eclipse (Sons of Navarus #6)
Blood Ascendant (Sons of Navarus #7)
The Sons of Navarus Box Set #1
The Sons of Navarus Box Set #2
Destined Ones Duet
Stolen Destiny (Destined Ones Duet #1)
Destiny Redeemed (Destined Ones Duet #2)
The Victorian Erotic Romances
Love’s Master
Masquerade
The Victorian Erotic Romance Trilogy