Chapter 3
Just then I heard the door.
Aaron walked in.
I looked up.
“Aaron… I can trust you, right?”
He tilted his head slightly, confused, then smiled and pulled me into a hug, pressing his forehead against mine.
“Of course you can.”
“Okay. I trust you.”
I put down my phone and turned off the light.
After that, I stayed off social media.
Aaron acted completely normal.
I figured once some new drama popped up online, people would move on.
But a few days later, on my lunch break after a client meeting, I spotted Aaron on a nearby street.
Hard to miss.
Tall. Black jacket. Standing out in the crowd.
What was also hard to miss was the woman next to him.
Fitted black dress.
Big smile.
Holding his hand.
It was the relationship tester.
I gripped my bag and walked over quickly.
The second I got close, she dropped his hand and took off like she’d seen a cop.
Aaron spun around, wide-eyed.
“Summer? What are you doing here?”
I watched her disappear, then looked back at him.
“Who was that?”
He looked away.
“A saleswoman. She kept trying to push some product on me.”
“Then what are you doing here?”
Aaron ran a club and was almost never away from it.
This neighborhood was far from everything.
He smiled.
“I heard you had a meeting out here, so I figured I’d wait and take you to dinner.”
He even pulled out his phone to show me a reservation at a couple’s restaurant.
The décor looked a little tacky, but the gesture was sweet.
I agreed.
The food was actually pretty good.
By the time we were done, my mood had lifted.
Out of habit, I opened the app to see if things had finally cooled down.
They hadn’t.
The relationship tester had posted again.
“Sweetie, you ate the meal I was supposed to have.”
The photo showed me laughing and eating with Aaron.
Aaron happened to be looking down in the shot, his back turned slightly.
He looked distant. Distracted.
I immediately looked toward where the photo had been taken.
Already empty.
My good mood was gone.