Chapter 24

Twenty-Four

Chloe

"Chloe?" Nathan's whispers pulled me out of the depths of sleep. "Are you awake?"

I wanted to open my eyes. I wanted to smile at him, yawning lazily. I wanted to see him. His body heat called out to me and I desperately wanted to bask in it. However, flashes of the night before slipped into my mind and I felt even more pathetic.

He had called me a whore. To his brother no less! How the hell was I supposed to face his brother? Heck, I was sure Noah was convinced I was too. I had slept with his brother and married him instead. The one time I decided to do something spontaneous, I got tagged as a hoe and got married to an asshole.

Very fucking poetic.

I decided to ignore Nathan then. I didn't want to see him. I just needed to get a fucking job first, and then I'll pay back every single penny. Every fucking bit I owed him. No one, not even him in all his gorgeous glory, could walk over me like that.

I heard movement and clamped my eyes tighter, trying to stamp the ur