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“So everybody knew except me.”

“No,” Heather said quickly. “I didn’t know about Avery until yesterday. She didn’t know about me.”

I laughed.

“Oh, that makes it so much fucking better.”

I grabbed my purse.

Heather stood.

“Where are you going?”

“Home.”

Both of them spoke at once.

“Sam—”

I looked at them.

“I have four children at home with that man.”

“He’s at work,” Avery said.

“He won’t be for long.”

Because I knew Xavier.

If he’d been blowing my phone down all morning, and now I blocked him?

That nigga was going home.

I pushed my chair in.

Heather wiped her face.

“What are you gonna do?”

I looked at her.

“I don’t fucking know.”

And that was the truth.

I didn’t know if I was going to scream.

Cry.

Throw his shit outside.

Break everything he owned.

All I knew was one thing.

When Xavier told me this morning that we needed to talk, this motherfucker already knew exactly what was coming.

And he still let my sister and cousin be the ones to tell me.