CHAPTER 22
MICHAELJulie stared at me from across the table, giving me those f**k me eyes that she had been giving me all night and a tense smile that had asked me a million times where I had been the last month. I hadn’t wanted to come tonight, but she’d asked me out last minute, and I’d needed a damn drink.
Mia had been on my mind all last night and today. I could barely think straight at work. All I could hear was her voice uttering those words over and over and over. “I just want s*x,” which to me sounded more like, “I just wanted to use you for sex.”
Those words had haunted me for years. Linda had made sure to burn that thought in my memory for over a f*****g decade. I had never been good enough for her, only when she got horny and didn’t have anyone to hook up with on the side. The
