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welled up inside her. She would not grovel to her bastard husband.
    "Did you ever love me?" she snarled. "This isn’t how you treat someone you love."
    Dan started to say something, but she brushed past him with a furious stomp. She slammed open the office door, and saw Sadie had been eavesdropping. Sadie had a self-satisfied smile on her lips.
    Nia nearly punched her as she swept past her and stalked upstairs.
    "Nia!" Dan shouted. "What are you going to do?"

Chapter Four
    J ack made certain all the locks were changed on the house, then he went back to work, at the business he owned out on the highway. It was what he did ... work. No one at his business had a clue about what just happened to his marriage, and he intended to keep it that way until it was impossible to.
    After Sadie got half of everything he owned he would have to rebuild it all. But he wasn't going to let her take the rental business; he'd worked too hard building it. No, he'd have to take a loan against the business, and pay her the half that her lawyers would demand, even though Sadie never stepped inside the business. Then there was the house.
    It was a mess. Jack looked out the front windows of Rent-All, his business on the busy main highway through town. Across the street was the large parking lot where the Rotten Cheating Spouses crew had ambushed Nia Cooper. Of course he'd never paid much attention to the Fabric Barn over there.
    But he did realize that he'd noticed Nia's car before, parked across the street. Her car was a classic, in need of a lot of TLC. Any man would notice it, and have the rare thought about what it would be like to own and refurbish it. Jack's gaze sharpened and he leaned to the side a bit, looking across the street. Nia's car was sitting in the parking lot about halfway between him and Fabric Barn.
    "I can't believe they took her home without her car," he muttered, walking from behind the counter and up to the window to get a better look. He thought her car was in a different spot from earlier that day.
    All his employees were gone for the day. He was waiting for an overdue rental of a Bobcat. Jack glanced at his watch again and saw it was eight o'clock.
    "Fabric Barn should be closed by now."
    He would have been closed if he wasn't waiting for the guy with the Bobcat, which had to go out again first thing in the morning. So once it came back, he still had thirty minutes of work to do, getting it ready. Jack heard the bell ringing from the back of the building, and he knew his Bobcat had returned. His gaze lingered on Nia's car before he finally turned to go and finish his work.
    He was tired but edgy forty-five minutes later when he finally finished and was ready to lock up. The summer night had turned dark as he grabbed his jacket, laptop, and the day's deposit bag. He was thinking about going out and getting drunk. At times he even dared himself to go find someone to take to bed.
    He could now.
    While he'd worked that afternoon his thoughts had bounced from Sadie and where she might be that night, to why she'd done it, and sometimes thinking about Nia Cooper.
    "Comrades in misery," he mused, turning away from locking the front door of Rent-All. But he stopped with his gaze moving across the street. "She's been over there all this time and I never saw her."
    He couldn't help it; he had to go look at her car. Maybe she needed someone to help her get back to it in the morning. He sure didn't think it was a great idea for Nia to be stuck at home with an angry, cheating husband and no car.
    "Course, Cooper could be with Sadie," Jack muttered, approaching the car, while he noticed the window was down on the driver's side.
    Just as he was about three steps from it, an overhead parking light came on. He immediately grimaced because the light illuminated Nia slumped over the steering wheel. He freed a tight breath a second later when her head moved, obviously stirred by the sudden light. For one second he'd been afraid she was dead in