GARRETT
I regret it all.
Tessa had been gone less than six months and my life was already in turmoil. I hated to admit it but she was the glue that held everything together. I lost that. Lost her and now she was someone else's when she should have always been mine.
I stared at the bank's mail that was in my inbox for what seemed like hours. One week.
I had one week to pay back the five million dollar loan I took from city bank.
“Its your fault, Tessa…” If she hadn't exposed Amanda and I, life would have been good. So what if I stole her paintings?
Not a single soul would have known who she was if not for me. For years I attended galas, and meetings with fat f***s that had way too much money to squander.
And she had the audacity to take all of that away from me?
I clenched my fi
