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As Cole drove back to the hotel, I was the one silently staring outside the window as tiny strands of my hair escaped from the hair scrunchie and blew fiercely.

My head was filled with a lot of thoughts, from the near kiss at the arcade to seeing those two together but only one stood out and constantly rang in my brain: Everything had been planned. My first instinct when we finally separated from the others was to tell Cole about what I had seen, but when he started to drive off, my mouth suddenly clamped shut.

I was torn between bursting into a loud scream and feeling relieved, but when my eyes became misty and threatened to leak out tears, I hastily rubbed at them and batted my eyelashes furiously.

Dave was not worthy of my tears.

I began to reminisce on how it all happened, meeting him at the library by 'chance' and to think Kiera had arrived two days later with her baby. The both of them took advantage of the fact that Cole once had a sexual relationship with her, and used it to a