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But who can I get to help me? Who do I trust enough in the industry to help me on my mission?
My blood runs burning hot as I think about Ashley’s promise to me. She did say that she would be a friend to me, that she’d help me because what happened in our own lives affected one another while we’re in the movie together, which is a good start. But I don’t know how honest she was, I can’t be one hundred percent sure. I never assumed that her offer was one that I would have to take her up in, but it seems that I was wrong.
Then again, if I want a couple of days off from filming, I suppose I’m going to have to give it a try, aren’t I? I will need to see if she really did mean what she said, and she wants to be a friend of mine. I have to, for Millie’s sake. This isn’t a situation that I ever wanted to find myself in, but I guess it’s time to put it all on the line and to see what direction my life can go in next. Thankfully, I have all my brothers to support me no matter what happens and wherever they are. I won’t ever have to be alone because of my family…
They are right, of course Millie is with her family, I can’t imagine anywhere better in the world to be.Chapter 14 – MillieWhat am I doing here? I honestly have no idea what brought me to this place, why I thought that it might be a good idea. Honestly, this is absolute madness. I can’t wrap my head around it at all. I justified it to myself a lot on the way here, trying to convince myself that this was meant to happen, but as this stern looking woman runs a metal detector over me, looking at me like I am a criminal. What is this going to achieve?
My heart thunders. It hits my rib cage so hard that I’m sure it must be doing some damage to my lungs. Once the woman waves me through, I place my hand on my chest, trying to check that it isn’t going anywhere. I’m a little dizzy actually, this almost feels like a nightmare rather than reality. But the hard-concrete underneath my feet as I take each heavy step reminds me that this actually is my life right now and I need to live through it.
There he is. Like there is some un told force between us, my eyes are drawn immediately to Dante’s. I guess because he’s the only person who I know in this cold, unfriendly room, and our history still clings to the air. On their own, my feet stop walking. I find myself unable to get closer to the man who terrorized me for far too long. He might be smiling and half waving at me now, looking calmer than I have ever seen him before, but the memory of his red, rage fueled face is burned in to my brain and it isn’t going anywhere.
“Smile,” I whisper to myself as I force a wave back. “Don’t make this any stranger than it needs to be.”
The only way that I manage to keep walking once more is when a man bumps in to me from behind and he basically forces me to go. I don’t have any choice but to get myself over to the small plastic table where the man who I never wanted to see waits for me, pretty much with open arms, not that I’m going to hug him.
“Wow, Millie,” he breathes hard. “You look wonderful. That LA sun must be doing you wonders.”
I shudder and nod hard. I still can’t get over the fact that he knows where I am now, where I live, and probably everything that I’ve been doing with my life as well. Dante is a hard one to escape.
“Hello, Dante.” My own tone is brisk and cold. “I would ask how you are but that seems strange…”
“Not at all.” He shakes his head determinedly. “Prison isn’t all bad. It’s been very good to me. It’s changed me in ways that I didn’t even know I could change. It’s made me see the error of my ways.”
“I see…” This all seems too rehearsed, like he knows exactly how to manipulate me.
“I’m sorry, I know that might sound a little corny.” He must be able to read my unimpressed expression. “It’s just… well, I have thought about you a lot over the last few years. What it would be like to see you what I would say, how I could make you see how sorry I am… but the timing never felt right. I could only assume that you had moved on with your life and wanted to put me in the past. At least until it all came out again.”
