Mack Brown, a successful psychologist, moved to Chicago after her first heartbreak. After meeting a lawyer, Zander Carmichael, she believes she's starting to warm up to commitment again, that is until she bumps into her first love 6 years later. Sec...
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My mind has not comprehended, what I have just seen. Anezka and Zander! ANEZKA AND FUCKING ZANDER!
Okay, I think my mind is getting there.
I storm into the closet and grab my suitcase and start packing my clothes, grabbing whatever I can and just throwing it into the suitcase. "Mack, please just stop and listen to me!" he yells.
"WHAT! What, Zander? What could you possibly say to explain and justify you being in the shower with Anezka?" I yell back, louder than him. I know I look crazy right now, but I can't think straight while he's in the room with me.
"Look after the argument with you, I left work early and came home. I was trying to make sense of everything, and then I kept thinking something was going to happen and Anezka was there to comfort me," he says.
"Comfort you? How the fuck did comfort lead to you two being naked in the fucking shower?" My head is hurting from how much shouting I'm doing.
"He's lying." I hear from the corner of the room. Anezka stood there, robe on, hair wet.
"What?" I question her.
"Anezka shut the fuck up and go away!" He swore to her.
What does she mean he's lying? Was she not comforting him? Did he make a move on her?
"What are you talking about?" I asked her. I can feel my tears beginning to pool up in my eyes. She walks into the room and pulls on her hair.
We've been sleeping together for almost six months now. He came home early to celebrate our six-month anniversary. Whenever you slept in the guest bedroom, he would come into my room, and well...you know" she tells me with a smirk on her face.
This bitch! I could kill her right now. I could actually kill this slut. My anger takes control and my tears can't help but fall down my cheeks. I look at Zander, he has his head down in shame. "Is this true?" I ask Zander with my voice sounding weak.
"Mack, please let me explain."
"Is this fucking true Zander?" I yell back but all you can hear is the cry in my voice. He looks at me, then at Anezka, then back at me. "
You can see the pictures if you want." Anezka interrupts. I lift my hand up in the middle of the air to shut her up.
"You...shut the fuck up!". I scared myself with my tone. I definitely scared Anezka enough to make her be quiet. I was starting to see my old self return and I didn't like it. I look at Zander for an answer and he nods, confirming Anezka's story. I scoff and laugh through my tears.
"All this time you've been accusing me, you've been making me out to be the bad guy, when I have been nothing but honest with you about Hunter. Even before Hunter, I had never even looked at another man and you do this! How dare you? How dare you have the goddamn fucking audacity? To tell me I'm not ready to marry you when you spent a third of the duration of our relationship...fucking the help! " I say to Zander.
I don't yell, but my tone is enough to give my anger away. I look between them both and walk out the door. I ring Sapphire and ask her if I can stay with her for a while, and she being the amazing person she is, agrees. I tell her I'll explain everything and find Rashid.
Rashid accepts to drop me off at Sapphire's place. I offered to pay him extra if he could get the rest of my things from the apartment, but he tells me I don't need to pay anything and that he would be more than happy to help.
It's been raining and there's no proper parking around Sapphire's place. Rashid drops me off five minutes away from her apartment. He apologises and I reassure him, it is perfectly fine. Upon arriving at her door, I knock. Much to my surprise, Sam opens the door.
"Oh, Mack," he says concerningly. I know I look like a mess, but I can't look that bad, can I? My hair is soaked through and I smell of the rain. Sapphire comes from around the corner and takes a look at me. I can't help but cry while my bag falls onto the floor. She runs towards me and hugs me tight, while I cry into her shoulders.
"I'll go get you some clean clothes so you can shower, Saph why don't you take her to the spare room," Sam says to us both. Sapphire smiles at Sam and walks me to the bedroom. After a few minutes, Sam walks in with two cups of tea. One for me and one for Sapphire. He's so sweet to her, honestly. She thanks him and he lets us be alone.
"What happened, Mack?" she asks. This is the first time since getting home, I have had time to actually process everything. I have just spent the last year and a half with him, only for it to be gone down the drain. I finally gained the courage to look at Saph. Her eyes are wide, but her face is covered with nothing but concern. Nothing else. I let out a deep breath, that I didn't even know I was holding. "Zander and Anezka have been sleeping together."
"WHAT?" Saph stands up and yells. I have nothing to say. I feel like the biggest idiot in the world. "They have been sleeping together for six months. Apparently, every time after a fucking argument, he would sneak into her room, and shag her." Saph's face has gone pale, and her jaw looks like it's going to hit the floor.
"That fucking bastard!" she yells again. I shake my head and run my hands through my soaked hair. I can't talk or think about this shit anymore. "I'm going to go into the shower, starting tomorrow I don't want to think about this anymore."
She agrees with me and leaves me alone. I go into the bathroom and take off my soaked clothes. God, I do look like a mess. I start the shower and let the water get warm. This is the only time I can be weak because no one is around. I step into the shower and break down, allowing the hot water to wash off everything. Absolutely everything.
A/N - hope you are all enjoying the book so far. The next chapter will be a flashback of the time between Mackenzie and Hunter and when they first met. There will be quite a few flashbacks in this book, just so everyone has a better idea of the relationship between them and for you to be able to understand little easter eggs. ♡♡♡♡
