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“Are you happy?”

She nodded. “I’m on the path to getting happy. I’ve even started the gym, which you seemed to have stopped doing.”

She’s right. “Ugh, I know. I’ve been so busy and lazy.”

She laughed. “I can see that. And you’re happy right?”

“For the first time in my life, I think I actually am.”

“I’m happy to see you happy. It’s different seeing you so into one person.” Yeah, it’s different for me too, but I’ve accepted it. I didn’t even have a choice but to accept it.

“I must ask though.” I stopped to take a sip of my sprite and eat one of my cherries, “Are you talking to someone?”

“What? No. Why’d you ask that?”

“Just curious.”

“How are you and Dillon? Any fighting? Anything new?”

“We’re good. No fights. I did ignore him for three days because I was losing my mind. We said our first ‘I love you’s’ but I told you that already. That’s pretty much it.” I pushed my shoulders back and shrugged. All the details I could share were said, but there are things she just didn’t need to know.

“The healthy start you needed. I’m so proud of you, and hey, we’re graduating soon. I got my request form today, and I sent in a request form for you too. I figured you were busy.” Thank God.

“I could kiss you right now,” I groaned in pleasure, “thank you. I was going to do it today, but I started my day too late.”

She blew a kiss over to me and smirked, “It’s my pleasure.”

A world without Abigail-Ann, is one I don’t want to ever live in.

Dillon

Board meetings have become a chore, and I’ve been in this AGD meeting for a few hours. The worst part is sitting in a room right next to my father. I felt sorry for him and gave him a position, and he’s still so ungrateful.

“If we add more stocks to the brand and revamp it, then our profit would increase,” I added.

“Adding more stocks costs money,” he said.

“Which I have plenty of. If you need reminding, I’ll be glad to get accounts to show you just how many zeros my bank accounts have, Father,” I countered.

He hissed his teeth and clenched his jaw in anger. I took great pleasure in seeing him like this. “So say we add more stocks, what’s to show that we will get more profit?”

“Everything is to say. The people love designs. The—Excuse me,” I said and got up from the meeting table. Azzaria was calling me, and I had to answer. I heard my father make his comments, but I couldn’t answer him, not right now.

“Precious, what’s up?” I was wondering if she butt-dialed me because I was waiting on the line for a good three minutes, and I hadn’t heard her say anything. There was just rustling in the background.

I was about to hang up when I heard a male voice speak. “I’ve missed you,” the person said. It wasn’t a friendly tone. It was said with gruff. With anger.

I heard a few faint deep breaths and couldn’t figure out what was going on. I kept her on the line because if I needed to track the cell, I’d need the call to be live.

Storming out of the meeting room, I saw Lucio and turned to him. “Where the fuck is my girlfriend?”

Lucio jumped up in his seat as shocked as ever. He looked just as confused as ever. “She’s at the cafe with Abigail,” he said quickly. I know Abigail’s annoying voice, and that voice was not hers.

“Where are the men I told you to put in place to protect her?” I shouted. Can no one get anything right today?

Lucio checked his phone, and his eyes shot up to me. “Sir, we have a—”

“We have a what?”

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