The Hockey Captain’s Unwanted Wife (Blair and Grayson) novel Chapter 248

Chapter 248

-LUCA-

Charlotte was gone.

The suite still smelled like her. I stood in the middle of it and could not move.

I had thought Marco would stop her.

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That was the worst part. Some ugly, jealous part of me had been waiting for him to run after her.

To catch her at the lift. To do the thing a man does when he wants a woman. If they had something going on that neither of them had told me about, he should have fought for it.

He had not.

He was still here. In my room. Looking at me like I had set the building on fire.

“What the fuck is wrong with you?” Marco shouted.

Of course he was pissed. He liked her. He would hate that I let her brother take her.

“I don’t want to talk about this.”

I did not. I would say things I would regret. I could already feel them in my mouth. Ugly things. You had your arms around her. How dare you touch her. You should know how I felt about her. You had no right wanting what was mine.

I swallowed the words down.

My hands were shaking. I hid them in my pockets so he would not see.

“How could you just stand there and watch her leave?” he demanded. “Did you even take one second to see that she was falling apart?”

My jaw clenched. I had seen it. That was the problem. I had seen the tears she was trying not to show me. I had felt her fingers on my mouth when she wiped the blood away. I had heard goodbye, Luca and still let her go, because she was not hurting for me. She could not be. Not when she wanted him.

“Charlotte leaving is better for everyone.”

He frowned like I had spoken another language.

“What the hell has gotten into you? The Luca I know would have fought the entire universe to keep her next to him. What the fuck happened? It can’t be because of one stupid fight.”

I took a breath. Tried to turn the feeling off. It did not turn off. It sat in my chest like the wall I had hit in the tracks, except this one I had driven into on purpose.

“I saw the two of you hugging by the bar,” I said. “You can drop this now. I know about the both of you.”

He paused.

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Looked at me like I was insane.

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“I know that the both of you like each other.” It came out sharper than I meant. “So before I lose my fucking mind, drop it.”

“What the fuck are you talking about?”

“Charlotte told me in the past that she wouldn’t mind dating you.” My hands were fists. I did not remember making them fists. “This entire deal with me was only because she wanted you. And since I’m your brother.

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I could not finish it.

The rest of it was worse. She slept with me because I was close to the one she actually wanted. She went running to him and cried on his shoulder the second I gave her an excuse.

For a few minutes he just stood there.

Mouth partly open.

Then he laughed once. Not a real laugh. The kind you make when the room has gone mad.

“Do you mean to tell me,” Marco said slowly, “you watched her walk out of here because you thought the two of us were getting together? Is that what you’re saying?”

I looked at the door.

The one she had slammed. The one her brother had punched me against. The one she had walked through with a bag and it had felt like the end of my life.

“Yes.”

The word was small.

It did not feel small.

“I saw you hold her,” I said. “She didn’t hug me. She hugged you. You are the one she wants. It was never

me.”

Marco did not speak.

I kept going because if I stopped I would go after her and make it worse. I needed to remind myself why I had to stay away.

“I have feelings for her.” My voice cracked. I hated this feeling, how painful it was. It was why I always ran from anything serious. “Real ones. I didn’t want to start this because I knew I would want more than she could give me and I would lose her. And I was right. I lost her. Just not the way I thought.”

I closed my eyes, then opened them again.

“So don’t stand there and shout at me like I didn’t care. I cared too much to keep her in a room where I would touch her and she would be thinking about you. I would ruin whatever you two have. I would ruin

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