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I don’t know what to say.
Please listen to me.
Please try to understand.
Please just give me a fucking moment to process what’s happening.
But it doesn’t matter because Luke is already striding out of my office.
Feeling like I might be sick, I slowly lower myself into my chair.
Breathe.
I take a slow inhale and try to exhale just as slowly.
Everyone is mad at me.
I have so few people I’m close to, and right now, they’re both mad at me.
Disappointed.
Angry.
I swallow.
It will pass.
I want to think Dad will forgive me, but I don’t even know which part I need him to forgive me for first. For not telling him I was dating someone, for getting married without inviting him, for lying to his face.
And Luke…
I drag the small bag across the desk toward me.
Luke just needs a moment to cool down.
Once he’s calmed down, I can explain everything.
I can tell him how much good I can do running Wag Corp. How it’s not about the money or the power. How I’m not doing this to be greedy.
I open the bag and tip it upside down over my palm.
A silicone ring, like the one Luke was wearing, falls out.
I vaguely remember Luke getting this after the party while I was signing what turned out to be our wedding certificate.
If only we’d looked in the bag at the moment or read the contract, this all could have been avoided. We could have scratched out our signatures and walked away. And the scare would have sobered us up enough that we probably wouldn’t have been pawing at each other in the elevator.
If we’d just taken one second, today could have been avoided.
I stare at the folder on my desk, the one holding the unsigned divorce papers, and I slide the ring onto my finger.
One day.
I’ll give Luke one day to be mad, but then he’ll come around.
He has to.
Chapter 65
