A Perfect Love Story - Book 9

Heartbreak

DENNI POV

I stand here frozen as I watch Lena walk away, and it's as if a knife has sliced through my heart even if I saw this coming a mile away. I knew she was still very much in love with Stefanie Foster, and yet I had still wanted her. She wanted me too to some degree, but that trip to Redding seemed to have sealed the deal in terms of our relationship being over.

I had felt it coming long before she left for Redding which is why I had told her I loved her that night. It wasn't that I was trying to have the monopoly on things, nor was it that I wanted her to say it back. I just felt in my gut that maybe she needed to hear how I truly felt about her. I knew she felt the same way to some extent. I felt it when we made love and when she looked into my eyes. But for some reason, Stefanie had stayed and made her way back into Lena's heart and mind.

I felt it in my bones when she had returned. Even though we made love extensively the night she came back, she had moaned Stef's name a handful of times without realizing it, but I ignored it because she seemed oblivious to it all. She said my name more, and I chalked it up to rote memorization...or so I told myself this as she left scratches down my back and chest, and she had made me feel so alive even after that, and by the next morning, she had all but avoided my eyes even when we showered together before work. She had kissed me deeply and made me feel good, but that was it. And afterwards, I had felt empty and as if I had lost her.

"Denni? What happened? Are you okay, baby? Where's Lena?" I hear Jensen ask as he snaps me out of my fog, and I turn to look at him as I shake my head. I hadn't returned to the table at all, and I guess he felt the need to come and look for me.

"No. I'm actually not okay. Where the fuck is Luna?" I spit out as my blood pressure has all but risen, and I'm livid. Luna has fucked with me long enough as Jensen rubs his forehead in clear distress.

"Oh dear. What did that girl do now? Please don't tell me she did it again? Lord have mercy! She..."

"Just...just go and gather her for me, please. If I do, it will not be pretty by any means." I manage as I sigh and pull a cigarette out of my purse before lighting it for my nerves were on bloody end, and I was ready to lose it...big time...something I rarely if ever do.

"Jensen said you wanted to talk to me?" Luna arrives out of breath now as I puff my smoke and look dead in her eyes which are now dilated, and I know she's high as a kite, something I have no room for at this time. She was messy, and I should have addressed this long before now. I can all but kick myself as I stare at her with my cold icy blue eyes.

"I do, yes. You hit on another of my girlfriends, Luna? How the bloody hell do you think that's okay? How? And before you answer, I do very much care because I know for a fact that she did NOT hit on you at all. In fact, you actually owe me an apology for Birch, Lisa, Noel and even Tracy on top of Lena! Did you fucking touch her????" I raise my voice now as her eyes move back and forth, and she looks as nervous as hell as she pulls the smoke from my hand and takes a puff which further infuriates me as I snatch it back.

"I don't remember! Did she say that I did? You know how women are, Denni," she laughs softly as I snort now.

"I am asking you what the actual fuck you did, Luna. Did you touch her? Make her feel uncomfortable? Corner her? Ask her to fuck? Do not give me any of this bullshit about how women are. I know how they are, and I know that you are a backstabbing cunt!" I seethe as she looks back at me alarmed.

"Oh my God! Denni! You need some of my weed stash! Why are you so uptight always?" Luna laughs nervously now as she pulls a hankie out of her pocket and wipes her brow.

"I am far from uptight, my dear. I am livid beyond words, and I'd love nothing more than to toss you out that window. That's what I would love to do."

"Den, what does it matter? She was gone anyway. One foot in, one foot out! I saw it a mile away, much like your other women. I just did you a favor, and..."