Chapter 27
SAWYER
Thursday
I’m not sure she even shed a single tear when I left.
It’s been seven, seemingly unending days. And still no sign of Naomi.
My life, for all its goals and wants, is over, and even if I weren’t on the path to getting traded by Cougars within the next week, all I’ve wanted would probably still be done.
My best friend won’t talk to me. The woman I wanted walked out.
Even the firm I’ve hired to handle it can’t help, and as I sit here at their offices, mind racing, my beard longer than ever before, I can barely look them in the eye.
I know I should have told Naomi what happened. Should have confessed all of it.
But that night when Ben stopped by the penthouse and revealed to me the truth of why the firm found me, how they’d caught wind of a possible publicati
