Wanted by Her Lost Love

she threatened to tell me he tried to rape her so Iwouldn’t break up with her for cheating on me. So ofcourse not half an hour later when she shows up atmy office telling me exactly what my brother said shewould, I didn’t believe her. Because I couldn’timagine my brother, the brother I all but raised, doingsomething so despicable. And when she beggedme, when she got on her knees and pleaded withme to believe her, I wrote her a check and told her toget the hell out of my life.”Devon and Cam both looked at him stunned,speechless.“How am I ever supposed to get past somethinglike that,” Ryan snarled. “Tell me how she’ssupposed to get past that. Do you know that just lastnight before dinner I magnanimously told her that Iforgave her? That I wanted us to forget the past andmove forward and that I forgave her for cheating onme.”He broke off and laughed a dry, harsh laugh.“Yeah, from the start I’ve been all about being thebigger person and wanting to start over when allalong I treated her so unforgivably. She came to mefor help, for protection, because I was the one