“Her name is Kate. She’s Tristan’s wife.”
Chapter Six
Vicki had run away from him again. Not that Tristan could blame her. If he’d seen one of Vicki’s ex’s in such a position as Kate was with him, he’d have run, or would he? For the longest time he looked at the space where she’d been standing. His woman looked broken all over again. He was reminded of the time he’d seen her in the hospital after she’d lost the baby.
Never in all of his life did he ever want to see that look on her face. The sadness he’d witnessed in her eyes tore him apart. He was the cause of her sadness.
“Well, she’s a strange girl,” Kate said.
Anger unlike anything he’d ever felt ran over him. “I think it’s time you took a break, Marla. Kevin, take Marla to lunch.” Staring at Stefan he gave him a nod and then slammed his office door. Without waiting to hear if the outer office door to the station closed Tristan turned to his wife.
He’s never known such anger. Even when he’d found Kate with another man who gave her what she needed, he’d not been angry. Disappointment was the only emotion he recalled. The woman who was supposed to have loved him betrayed him.
“Well, Tristan?” Kate took a step back.
“Don’t start, Kate. You haven’t got the right to be questioning me,” he said.
“You’re a married man. The girl who ran off looks a little in love with you. I think you should be careful.”
The chair in front of him went crashing to the floor. Looking at his beautiful wife made him feel nothing but disgust and anger.
“Married? You’ve been shacking up with your fucking pain slut of a boyfriend. Remember, the man who can hurt you more than I can. Vicki is no strange girl. She’s the fucking woman I love.”
His words were a revelation to him.
“Please, Tristan. She’s a passing fancy. There’s no way you can be in love with such a girl. It can’t happen. I won’t let it,” Kate said.
The woman Tristan never met stood in his wife’s place. Kate looked older and more sinister than he ever recalled. This woman before him wasn’t used to being passed over. Her intelligence, beauty, and overall cunning never allowed a person to look over her. He’d once fallen for her charms.
No more, Law Castle had cured him of her. He was in love with Vicki and had been for a long time. She was an addiction to him.
She was also going to be the mother of your child.
You broke her heart because of Kate.
What commitment do you really have to Kate?
“I want a divorce,” he said.
“What?”
“I want a divorce. I want you out of my life. I never want to see you again.”
“You can’t mean that,” Kate said.
Frustration bloomed inside him at her words.
“What part are you having trouble with? That girl, as you call her, has put up with more shit from me than she ever deserved. I was her fucking first, and instead of giving her a ring, my name, and house with a fucking picket fence I didn’t, because I’m married to fucking you.” Tristan started yelling the words. He no longer cared who heard his business. Everything he said needed to be heard, especially by Kate. “She was pregnant with my baby. You know, I fucked her without a condom, and a baby started to grow. You got your pissing tubes tied because you couldn’t stand the thought of losing your figure. Vicki didn’t ask for anything, and she lost the baby—but I could have been a father. Mine and Vicki’s baby couldn’t have taken my name because of you. No baby of mine is growing up a bastard. Give me my divorce, Kate, or I swear to God, you’ll live to regret it.”
Tristan stormed out of his office without looking back. No one was in the building as he passed the front desk.
“Like that you’re going to leave me?” Kate asked, shouting at him.
Turning back to face her Tristan snorted. “You were never mine to keep.”
“Divorcing me will never be easy, Tristan. I will make you pay.”
“Bring it on, bitch. I’m ready for this to be over.”
He moved out of the station and saw several of the locals gazing in his direction. Stefan was waiting for him across town next to Noah and Drew’s mechanic shop. Jake, Brent, and Connor were stood with him talking instead of working. They stopped when they saw him.
“The blonde was your wife?” Stefan asked.
“Vicki tell you the truth?”
“Yeah, what I want to know is why a fucking married man screwed around with Vicki.” Stefan grabbed the collar of his uniform and slammed Tristan against the wall.
Tristan took everything the other man gave. He deserved to be hurt and more for what he’d done to Vicki. The young woman deserved so much better from him. “It’s a long story. Vicki knows the truth.”