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Two hours is enough for me to black out.
Chapter 28
Gabriel
"I’ll just come out and say it as it is,” Caleb says as he stands in front of my desk, hands on the polished wood surface. “You’re a terrible friend.”
I nod. “Okay. That’s why I said I needed to see you.”
He rolls his eyes and pulls back a chair, plopping down on it.
“You said you wanted to see me? I’ve been trying to reach you for the past week without success. You should be apologizing to me instead,” Caleb says.
“Five days,” I correct, but I add an apology because he’s right. “I’m sorry. I needed to think about a few things, and I just…I was a coward. There is no excuse for not returning your calls.”
Caleb doesn’t accept the apology as he folds his arms and flares at me.
“I’ll think about your apology later. What I want to know is why, on the night of the gala, I had to take a drunk Harper home.”
“And the whole time, she was talking about how you lied to her. What did you do?”
I frown, adjusting on my chair. I lied to her? How?
If anything, Harper is the one who lied when she said she had feelings for me.
“What did you do, Gabriel?” Caleb repeats.
Letting out a sigh, I tell him about the party, how I went out looking for Harper and found her on the phone with her mom. I narrate what I heard as best as I can to Caleb, making sure to add a few phrases verbatim.
He looks at me confused when I finish, shaking his head.
“And you didn’t ask her what she meant by that?”
“It was pretty clear,” I respond.
Caleb leans forward, and his posture is almost intimidating. Almost.
“Are you certain it was what you think? You said you heard her on the phone, talking to her mom. You had no way of knowing what was being said on the other end, did you?”
I shake my head. “No. But did I have to know? If you heard Mira on the phone saying the same thing, what would you think?”
“The first thing I’d do is ask her why,” he replies. “Her response might break me or clear things up, but it’s better to know for sure than to think something that is not right.”
There’s a knock on the door, and I pause on what I want to say when my secretary walks in.
“There’s someone here to see you, sir,” she says. “Mrs. Goldberg.”
I turn to Caleb. He shrugs and gets up.
“Work calls. But when the meeting is over, you bet your ass I’m coming back, and we’re hashing this out. If you have any meetings after this, I suggest you postpone them.”
“This is a matter of the heart and the woman you love.”
As he promised, Caleb walks in after my meeting, but he’s on the phone with Mira. It takes a few minutes, and then he faces me square.
“I just got off the phone with Mira. She says that what happened that night is different from how you told it to me.”
“What did she say?”
