Fighting for Love (Second Chances #4)(56)

“So, there’s nothing Will can do then?” Matt asked.

“Apparently not,” I grumbled into the phone.

Lexi and Hayley would be arriving any moment for our girl’s night and I was trying to get everything cleaned up in a hurry. Matt was livid when I told him about my visit from Kyle, but if I really wanted to pursue a restraining order against him then there was a chance he wouldn’t get to fight him. Matt needed that fight and I couldn’t deny him that.

“Did you want me to come over later tonight after Lexi and her sister leave?”

“Yeah, that would be great, but you can always come a little early so you can meet Hayley. She’s completely different from Lexi, but I think you’d like her,” I said.

“Okay, just text me when your movie’s almost over and I’ll head down that way. Have fun, and don’t do anything stupid like punch someone. That’s my job,” he teased.

“I’ll try not to,” I replied with a laugh.

As soon as I hung up the phone, Lexi and Hayley came bounding through the door with a bottle of wine, pizza, and a stack of movies. It was only six o’clock in the evening, but both of them were already in their pink and black zebra printed pajamas with their blonde hair in ponytails.

“It’s party time,” Hayley shouted.

“Wow, look at you two,” I gasped. “Does this mean I have to go put my pajamas on too?”

Lexi smiled and shook her head. “No, you don’t. I wasn’t feeling too good today, so when I showed up at Hayley’s to pick her up she decided to do the same thing.”

“Uh-oh,” I responded, taking the pizza out of her arms. “Are you going to be okay? Do you need to go back home?”

She scoffed and waved me off. “Of course not, I’ll be all right. This is my only night to eat pizza until we do this again. I love Will to death, but I can’t stand the healthy kind of pizza he likes to eat. That boy is seriously missing out on some good food.”

Laughing, Hayley set the movies and the wine down on the counter. “I don’t know how you do it, sis. I’m going to eat and drink whatever the hell I want and no one’s going to tell me I can’t.” Lexi rolled her eyes and filled a plate full of pizza before sitting down at the table.

“So, how have you been?” Hayley asked, nudging me in the side. “I hear you and Matt are getting hot and heavy again. I can’t believe no one told me you dated a famous fighter.”

“It was a long time ago when we dated,” I informed her. “And he wasn’t a fighter then. He was just a normal guy.”

“Well, either way I can’t believe I didn’t know,” she scolded me. “I’ve been dying to see you and talk to you since all this shit with Caleb …” she said, and then caught herself. “Oh wait, never mind, his name is Kyle. I can’t believe he fooled me after all this time.”

Fetching the corkscrew off the counter, I grabbed the bottle of white wine and opened it, pouring us each a glass. “How did you become friends with him to begin with?” I asked. “Josh isn’t friends with him, is he?”

Hayley shook her head and grabbed a glass of wine. “Oh no, Josh and Kyle aren’t friends, especially after what happened. Josh wanted to kick his ass for you, but we figured Matt would do that all on his own.” She took a sip of wine. “I was introduced to Kyle by a girl who took some of my hip hop classes about a year ago.”

“Wait,” I interrupted her. “Who was the girl? What was her name?”

This could be the break we needed to figure out who was scheming with Kyle. Maybe Matt would recognize the name.

Furrowing her brows, Hayley took another sip of wine and pursed her lips. “Hmm … let’s see. I haven’t seen her in months because I don’t teach classes anymore, but I’m thinking it was Maria … Mary, maybe. Anyway, she wanted to set him up with me, but when I said I was taken she asked if I had any single friends. I introduced him to a couple of my girls, and we all hung out on the weekends, but he didn’t like any of them until he met you … or at least that’s what I thought.”

“Can you think of the girl’s last name by any chance?” I asked.

She shook her head. “I honestly don’t know it. Why do you want to know her name?”

Lexi joined us in the kitchen and I passed her a glass of wine. “Matt and I think his sister might know who’s helping Kyle. Someone took the pictures of us together, and if we had to guess we’re speculating that it could be a girl Matt slept with at one point or another.”

“Wow, that’s craziness,” Hayley muttered. “I’ll get you the girl’s full name. I just need to look through my records of all the people who signed up for my classes. Can you give me a couple of days?”

“Yes,” I shouted happily. “We just want to get to the bottom of everything, and figure out how to handle it.” Taking my glass of wine, I lifted it in the air and tapped it to Hayley and Lexi’s glass. “To finding out the truth,” I toasted.

All I wanted was for it all to end. Matt and I deserved a second chance to start over, to be happy, but how could we when at every corner someone tried to break us apart? It was one thing to fight for what you wanted, but another to fight for keeps.