Page 96 of Finding Hayes
We spent the next hour eating and talking about our future.
When she’d gone to the bathroom, I’d texted the guys to ask them to put out some feelers about office space for her downtown.
It was the least I could do.
They’d responded quickly and said they’d be on the lookout and keep me posted.
There was a knock on the door, and I pushed to my feet just as Savannah came back.
“Who could that be? It’s late,” she said, falling in stride beside me.
I pulled the door open and startled at the sight of her.
Kate fucking Campbell stood on the other side.
And just like that, our perfect evening just got shot to shit.
twenty-six
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Savannah
“Hey,y’all. Looks like the rumors are true, huh?” Kate “The Devil” Campbell stood on our doorstep.
Have I mentioned I despised this woman?
“What the fuck are you doing here?” Hayes growled, pulling me close and wrapping an arm around my shoulder.
“What? I can’t just pop in and see how you’re doing?” she asked, her eyes scanning over me from head to toe, before stopping at where my hand sat on my hip as she zeroed in on my ring.
“No. It’s late. We haven’t talked in years. Why are you here?” He didn’t hide his irritation.
“I’m in town to see an old friend, and I ran into Lenny at Whiskey Falls. He told me you two got married, and I thought he was messing with me. I just wanted to see with my own eyes.” She smirked before glaring at me. “I knew you always wanted him. You just had to wait it out for a decade.”
My hands fisted at my sides. “You know nothing about me. Never have, never will.”
“I heard Abe’s ex-wife wondered if this marriage was evenreal. People do desperate things for money all the time. Hayes always did feel sorry for you.”
Before I could get a word out, Hayes stepped forward, shifting his shoulder in front of me now, almost as if he were trying to shield me from all that evil. “Listen to me loud and clear, Kate. Savannah is my wife. She’s the only woman I’ve ever truly loved. I just never thought I was worthy of her until she came back and proved me wrong. So you can turn your ass around and get the fuck off our property. You got me?”
Kate sputtered a few times as she took a step back and finally formed a sentence. “He’s never going to give you what you need. He has no emotions. You’ll stray, just like I did.”
“After having him in my bed all these months, straying is the last thing I’d consider doing. But thanks for the concern,” I said, thinking of all the hell this woman had put me through. I stepped up beside Hayes, and she was still staring at us with her mouth hanging open. “Hey, Kate?”
“Yes?” she hissed.
“Eat a dick.” I slammed the door in her face.
Hayes’s head fell back in laughter. “Damn, woman. That was badass.”
“It felt pretty damn good.” I shrugged. “Why do you think she came here?”
“She comes into town every now and then, from what I’ve heard. She’s a miserable human being, so I’m guessing she and Lenny probably still stay in touch, because they’re both pieces of shit. He probably told her I was married, and she had to come back and see it with her own eyes. I’d say we handled that well.”
I nodded. “She clearly hasn’t changed a bit.”
“She never will.” He studied me. “You look tired, Shortcake. Let’s go to bed.”
