Chapter Twenty CasePain. Searing, blinding pain. The kind of pain that knocks all the sense out of you, that leaves you stumbling like an i***t, wondering what the f**k just happened.
One minute I’m drinking champagne and looking into Sienna’s eyes, and the next, I’m in the parking lot, Ryder’s fist making swift and forceful contact with my face.
The first blow lands on my cheek, right over the bone, the shock of the impact shooting through my skull. I’ve barely registered what’s happening when the second blow hits, this time landing higher, right where my nose and eye socket meet, making my eyes water as blood begins to drip from my nose.
Holy s**t.
“I f*****g trusted you, asshole!” Ryder yells, shaking out the hand he just used to hit me.
The woman he came here with, the one I recog
