“And you do?”
“Yes.”
She pushes her tongue against her top teeth. “Ask yourself that question again.”
Jem appears from a doorway down the hall and stops dead as he sees me talking to Kristie. She’s saying something else, but I’m not listening. Kristie practically said he’d just fucked her and now he appears from a room in the direction she came from.
Catching site of someone behind me, Kristie air kisses a false goodbye and teeters away. I step to one side and rest against the wall waiting for Jem to reach me.
“You okay?” he asks warily as he approaches.
I check out his clothes for disarray and step closer. Jem’s clothes are intact but he smells the same as the woman who stood in the same spot a minute ago.
“You fucking asshole!” I yell and shove him hard in the chest before he tries to touch me.
“What the fuck? What the hell have I done now?”
“You meanwhohave you done!” I shout.
Jem grabs my arm and steers me to a quieter part of the hallway. “What the fuck are you talking about?”
“How dumb do you think I am?” I whisper, trembling. “You disappear for ages and then… her!”
“What?” Realisation dawns in his eyes. “No! Jesus, Ruby.”
“You smell of her! You bastard! Why bring me here at all if you were going to spend the evening with your fuck buddy?” Before he can answer, I stomp off to the elevators. “And don’t follow me!”
Jem makes a wise choice, and I’m alone in the elevator when I head up to our suite.