Scared to Death

Riley

I'd been way too harsh in my response to him bringing me flowers. I was shaking as I slammed the door and locked it, my emotions all over the place.

"Chill out. Shit." I walked to the floor to ceiling windows at the far part of my hotel room and pulled the curtains over. Liam was below, standing near the water with two hot girls and laughing from what I could tell. "Must be nice. To be alive and free."

My eyes moved down to see Ethan walk out of the hotel and toward his brother. Shit. Was he going to take one of the women for himself?

The fact that I cared spoke volumes.

He'd come to apologize, and I had shoved him away?

"Why?" I whispered and sunk down on a chair next to the window, watching the scene below as horror raced through my chest. He was going to break my heart again, wasn't he?

Deza's words from early that morning echoed through my head. Give him a chance. He's a good man. Love's never come easily to him.

My pulse spiked as he neared Liam and turned, flipping his mi