Chapter Nine
Baldwyn
It had been a week since the run-in with Sloan’s ex. It seemed as if she’d gotten over it. That was until I overheard her on the phone.
“I’ll come to you. I’d rather not talk here at work.”
Stopping in my tracks, I hung outside the door to her office, eavesdropping as a chill ran through me. It seemed to me that she must be talking to her ex, and I wasn’t keen on her going to see him at all. The way he’d made her entire personality change—even though it didn’t stay that way for long—bothered me to no end. The mental a***e she must’ve suffered made my heart ache.
“See you soon,” she said, sounding like the call was over. But then she added, “Love you.”
My heart jerked hard inside my chest. Why would she tell that man that she loves him?
I didn’t want to jump righ
