Chapter 59

Kiara

Hurt flashes in Trey's eyes, but he quickly conceals it. She's wrong about him, wrong about us, and I'll defend him the same way he defended me earlier when she was making excuses for why she didn't want to tell me she was here.

I shoot out of the chair, walking right past Trey to get right in front of her, my own anger coursing through me. "Don't talk about him like that, Trey is a good man!" I fire back at her. "You abandoned me when I needed you the most, and no, it didn't give me a right to be anything other than his friend, but he's been here for me and he let me stay with him when I didn't have anyone else. I tried to fight it. I really did! But I fell for him...hard...way harder than I imagined I could ever fall for anyone after what Jordan did to me."

My gaze locks onto hers, a silent plea for understanding, yet all that meets my eyes is her unbridled rage. Tears well up, my throat tight and burning, but I press on with my confession, "We both wanted to tell yo