Derek POV
The night had been a whirlwind of emotions and events, especially with the attack on Maddie's mother and Stephen's damn intervention. I knew he had saved the day, but that only served to increase the sparkle in Maddie's eyes whenever she looked at him. I couldn't allow that, not after all the work I'd done in secret to separate them.
Furthermore, I mean, I had plotted against him several times precisely to get him away from Maddie, and I was succeeding in that. He had come back with Tiffany, whom I had instructed very well not to let go of him and then Maddie and I were dating now; our date had been perfect, our night had been magical until my damn brother called and ruined everything.
My girl's mother had suffered an attack, but only for me to discover shortly afterward that
