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know exactly where he was going. This couldn’t
be right. When he pulled into a parking space in front of a white house, she
quickly turned down a side street so he wouldn’t see her. Finding her own
parking space wasn’t difficult, and she quickly left her car and peeked around
the corner just in time to see him enter the building.
    Going back to her car, she opened the trunk
and pulled out the disguise she’d placed in there. After a quick look around,
she saw no one watching her from the windows. She pulled on a wig then placed a
hat on her head. With her short blonde hair, all she had to do was make sure
her bangs were hidden behind the dark wig.
    As she walked down the street, she tried to
make it appear that she wasn’t following Devlin. She frowned when she was
finally able to read the name of the business. She knew Devlin liked art, but
to travel an hour and half from Boston to go to this little hole in the wall
gallery? What could be so special? Carefully, she looked in and saw a short,
chunky woman with nasty, bright red hair, which was so unkempt. Concentrating
on her breathing as she searched for a place to watch and not be seen, she
tasted blood in her mouth from where she bit her cheek trying not to scream.

 
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    Hayden stood in the shadows across the
street looking at the window, which had just gone black. Her heart sank and she
felt like she was going to throw up. She couldn’t believe he was cheating on
her, with a nothing of a woman. Her whole body shook.
    What
could he possibly see in her? I’m skinnier; I’m the perfect Hollywood size
zero. I stand at the exact proper height based on how tall he is. I shop at all
the right places, wear all the right clothes. Even in my awkward high school
teenage years I was voted ‘most beautiful.’ Why is he spending all evening with
her? Surely she can’t be as smart as I am. To get where I’m at, I had to not
only have street smarts, but book smarts, too. I had to know all of the angles. The other woman was nothing . She looked like a single mother. She
couldn’t even hold onto the baby daddy. I had given him everything and this is
how he treats me? How could he do this to me?
    She fell to her knees, unable to fathom
what he’d done to her. Digging her fingers into the dirt, silent sobs shook her
body and she vowed to do whatever it took to get him back. He’d always been
hers, and would always be hers. She would not be denied. She used her fists to
pound the ground and throw rocks and dirt to help alleviate the anger and
frustration she was feeling. She gave herself exactly twenty-two minutes to
rage and lose control. When she was finished, she stood up and casually brushed
the dirt off of her knees and stepped out under the light of the streetlamp.
Giving the dark window one last glance, she turned and walked to where she had
hidden her car. While the image of him kissing the whore burned into her brain,
she hummed “Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing” by Chris Isaak.

 
    Chapter
Five

 
    Lily
turned around when the bell on the door dinged, and saw Dory standing there.
She already knew where this was going to go and was actually surprised it took
her this long to get over here. When she’d told her Devlin had been in her
gallery, Dory was all ticked she wasn’t there so she could have met him. She’d
been the one who had listened to Lily when they were teenagers about how cute
he was. Lily knew it was a matter of time before she showed up today. Knowing
the gossip mill around town, she was surprised Dory hadn’t been watching her
and Devlin from across the street last night.
    “Spill. I
want to know everything. And don’t leave a thing out. Well, one thing, but you
already knew that.” Dory grinned at her joke.
    “There’s nothing to tell.” She turned
around and hid the grin from her. “You’re here early. Did you close early? No
one wants to adopt a pet today?”
    “Don’t try to change the subject. What do
you mean there is