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herself to smile as though she were unaffected.
     
    “We must have just got our wires crossed,” she declared breezily. “Thanks so much for your help.”
     
    Kait couldn’t run out of the gym fast enough. Her heart was pounding hard in her chest. If Jasper wasn’t at the gym, then where the hell was he? And more distressingly, why was he lying? Was he cheating on her?
     
    With her mind dizzy with panic and confusion, Kait did the only thing she could think to do – she called Anna.

Chapter 11
     
    “Discharge papers,” Carl waved the document in front of Jasper’s face. “Let’s get you home then before anyone has a chance to see you here.”
     
    “Yep,” Jasper sighed as he climbed off the hospital bed, his bandaged knee struggling to support his weight.
     
    “You okay there, champ?” Carl cast a wary look at him.
     
    “I’m still standing…barely,” Jasper quipped. He pushed himself away from the bed and unsteadily wavered on his feet.
     
    “Least you’ve not lost your sense of humor,” Carl grinned.
     
    “Hmm.”
     
    “Listen, I know you’re tired and just want to rest, but you’ll be back at it in the gym tomorrow, right?”
     
    Jasper wilted at the thought of another day’s training.
     
    “Maybe if my trainer had stuck around I’d be more inclined to go,” he replied, deciding to be bold and tackle the issue of his dismissed trainer head on.
     
    “I had to let him go,” Carl lowered his head apologetically. “I’m sure you can figure out why.”
     
    “Yes,” Jasper nodded. “But you could have run it past me first. Of all the things that could go, I didn’t think my trainer was one of them.”
     
    “I’m just doing my best to keep you afloat,” Carl said, sounding hurt. “I made an executive decision. Once you’re back on top and winning again, you can fly him back in. Until then, you’re on your own when it comes to training. But that’s not so bad is it? I mean, you didn’t have a trainer back when you were starting out.”
     
    “No,” Jasper agreed. He didn’t have a trainer back then, but he had the hunger. He wanted to win more than anything in the world; nothing else mattered. But now there were other things in his life like Kait. The hunger to win wasn’t nearly as veracious as it once had been. Thinking about Kait made Jasper feel even more exhausted. He’d lied to her, and he hated himself for that. She was always just trying to help, to look out for him, and he repaid her time and again by pushing her away.
     
    “Let’s get you back to your place,” Carl said, holding open the door for Jasper to awkwardly hobble through. “All you need is a good night’s sleep to get you back on track.”
     

Chapter 12
     
    “You need to head over to his place right now!” Anna fumed down the phone. Kait was lingering in the car park of the gym, her cell phone glued to her ear.
     
    “Really?” Kait squeaked in response.
     
    “Yes!” Anna insisted fiercely. “He’s probably over there right now doing who knows what with God knows who! You need to catch him in the act and put him in his place!”
     
    Kait just wanted to go back to her apartment and hide under her duvet. The thought of finding Jasper in bed with someone else was making her feel physically sick.
     
    “Kait, you deserve the truth from him.”
     
    “I know, I know,” Kait kicked at a loose stone and watched it skitter across the tarmac.
     
    “All I want is for you to be happy.”
     
    “I know.”
     
    “And a relationship can’t thrive when it’s built on lies.” Ever since getting serious with Robert, Anna had morphed in to one of those annoying types who suddenly felt like they were romance experts. Most of the time Kait didn’t mind, but at times like this, it really annoyed her.
     
    “If he’s lying, he’ll have good reason to,” Kait defended. She was starting to regret having called her friend in a panicked moment of weakness. Nothing Anna had said had made