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Snooping? “I wanted to catch Nat. If he left the building wouldn’t he had
to exit from the first floor?”
    “Summer,” Drew said, cupping my chin so
I was looking at him. “I’m afraid that wasn’t Nat at the door. I forgot to tell
you I have security, just one man sometimes who check up on the building. Make
sure things are fine. I think that was just Jim checking up on me.”
    “Oh,” I said. “I thought you said you
would find Nat…that he was here.”
    I couldn’t hide my disappointment.
    “He was supposed to, but somehow he
didn’t,” Drew looked as disappointed as I felt. “But you know what,
Summer…maybe there was a reason, a good reason, because now you understand why
I did what I did to you.”
    I couldn’t help feeling I let Nat down
now, though, although Drew and I had cleared things out. Did Nat actually show
or was it really the security guy checking up on Drew. If it was Nat waiting at
the other side of the door while Drew and I were talking, kissing, and
together; he would’ve heard everything.
     

 
    Chapter 6
     
    Drew
     
    A ll he had to do
was show up. That was all I had asked of Nat so Summer could have her
closure…so she could move on and finally let herself go with me.
    But the guy didn’t even have the balls
or decency to face us.
    Summer was heartbroken about Nat’s
deception, and I was left to pick her up, even left with feeling the brunt of
her despair. There was no one else she could turn to, yet the two closest
people to her who held her fragile heart in their hands twisted it and deceived
her. It was a testimony to her generous heart, that she was able to find love
for me once again.
    But then again, I broke her trust. I
promised her Nat, and he didn’t show. I don’t know what she’d think…that I
made up all this about Nat showing just to get Summer to see me, to open
herself back up to me just to have it go crashing down?
    I drove Summer back to her place soon
after I found her on the first floor, which was actually the second floor. At
the new building, the first floor was the basement, where we had top secret
information in servers running in a large wing of the floor. Summer somehow
found the door leading down the hallway to that wing, which had multiple levels
of security.
    It was a place Summer should not be
visiting. I didn’t want her face photographed on the security cameras leading
to that area, in case there were any concerns later on. I didn’t want her
knowing about the place in case she gets targeted for her knowledge. It was
better for her to know nothing. If she ever gets hurt or worse because of her
knowledge and association with me, Nat or Donovan Dynamics, I could never
forgive myself.
    Why did she think about Nat right after
I made love to her? Wasn’t I enough to satisfy her? Why did she run after Nat
with such abandon, left me behind while she pursued him?
    Nat, Nat, Nat! He was the bane of my
existence. Not only did he take the place of the eldest son in the family, but
he took whatever chance I had with Summer, by being her first.
    I called up the line that hid Nat and my
true number and waited for Nat to pick up.
    After a five rings when the voicemail
would pick up, I heard a click.
    “You asshole!” Nat’s voice shouted into
the receiver. “What kind of a game are you playing… inviting me to your Den,
just so you can flaunt what you have with Summer?”
    “So you did show up?” I asked.
    “I had better things to do,” Nat said,
“but for the sake of Summer’s sanity, I did…only to hear her tell you she never
wanted to see me again! Only to hear you and Summer…I can’t even talk about
it. It’s bad enough I had to leave Summer, but to hear her having sex with you
right when I was expecting to see the love of my life again, it’s low, man.
Really low.”
    “So you took off…again, breaking
Summer’s heart all over again. Just as always, Nat. You see, you can’t face
her. You chickened out. I admit what happened