Driven By Love (The Heirs 0f Orion Series Book 1)
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Her expression was stone cold and robotic. "Yes, he told me he needed someone more exciting, and I like variety."
He tore his gaze away from her, which released her from his power. She shook her head and rubbed her forehead. "What the hell?" Her eyes shot to him. "Keith, did you..."
Keith used that moment to grab the bag and push past her. He swung the bag over his shoulder and knocked over one of her porcelain bunny statues that sat on the hall shelf.
It bounced off the carpet and he had an urge to kick and shatter it, just like Jennifer had shattered his heart.
He pushed that childish urge away and moved around it to go to the front door. His feet felt paralyzed when he entered the living room and noticed the red rose petals on the floor with the two silk ones with the words 'Marry' and 'Me' stitched in silver.
His insides hurt and the angry flames climbed higher.
He heard Jennifer gasp behind him as she spotted the message. “Are you proposing to me?"
"I was. Not anymore." He reached for the doorknob and felt Jennifer grab him by the
arm.
"No, Keith don't leave. Look, we can work this out. We can still get married, and I'm sure that Jake and Stella wouldn't mind if you joined us."
The corner of his eye began to twitch. He needed to leave. He yanked his arm away from her grasp. "I don't want any part of your fuckfest, Jennifer." He ran his hand through his sandy blond hair. "When you asked me when we first started dating if I was into that sort of thing and I said no you should have told me that you couldn't commit to that." He swung around to look at her. "Instead, I wasted five years of my life with you!"
"No! Keith! I want to be with you! We can work this out!" She gripped his arm again and tried to pull him back into the apartment. "I need you in my life. Damn it, Keith, stop! You can't leave me like this! What is your mother going to do? She'll ruin my career!"
Keith froze. Her career? What the hell did her career... his eye caught a glimpse of a picture on a mantle. His mother, Donna, was smiling brightly with Keith and Jennifer around her. His mother was a top executive at the company that Jennifer worked for. Then it clicked.
Jennifer wasn't with him because she wanted him, she wanted his mother's influence on her career. Red hot anger flashed across his vision as he yanked his arm away from her.
"Your career is as dead as our relationship!" He whipped around and stalked down the hallway while Jennifer cursed at him and screamed.
"You will never be man enough for any woman!" She spat back at him.
Raising his hand, he flipped her off and ran as fast as he could to flee the memory and the woman he’d wasted the last few years with.