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“I’m not—”
“Whatever. You broke her heart because you listened to my mother and the douche twins, David and Edwin, and convinced yourself you weren’t good enough for her.”
“I never said I wasn’t good enough for her. I’m just…” I trail off but fortunately, not really, Sierra got words for me.
“A moron? Did it occur to you my sister doesn’t care about any of that?”
“She said that but I didn’t want the day to come when she began to think of me as David. Like I’m weight she has to carry on her back. And she probably realizes the same thing because she never bothered to return the many calls or texts I sent.”
“You don’t know my sister at all and maybe you don’t deserve her for saying shit like that. Are you serious? You broke her heart and made her sad.”
“How is she doing?”
“Really good, now.”
Yeah, I fucking know. I’ve been stalking Sierra’s Facebook page like a fiend since I’d left New York. She posts photos of Saona at least twice a week. Every Thursday they have drinks and on Sundays sometimes they take the kids out. There are always photos.
Yeah, I’m a fucking stalker.
Sierra’s smile tells me she knows.
“Did you come here to dump on me?”
“Nah. That’s not my style. I’m a lot more cunning and less obvious. If I were to dump on you, I would do it in a slow way, dropping clues, making sure you saw them, letting it torture you.”
“Like the way you’ve been using Facebook?”Fuck, why did I say that?
“Exactly,” she chuckles. “My sister looks good, doesn’t she?”
“She always looks good.” It hurts to admit that because I’ve felt like shit for four months now. “The one at the beach in that fire-red bathing suit was especially fun to see.”
“Ahhh, yeah. We were in DR. That bathing suit was my idea.”
I want to tell her and that dancing light in her eyes to fuck off right now. She had to know I had been calling non-stop that week.
“After you walked out on her, we got a call that our grandmother was really sick. They didn’t think she would make it. We had to take an emergency flight to see her. We were there over a week.”
Oh, shit.
If I hadn’t walked out, I would have been there with her when she’d gotten the call. How scared she must have been? Who feels like a monumental dick right now? That would be me.
“Is your grandmother better?”
“She is. Thank you.”
“I wish I had known.”
Her eyes narrow for a second. “Why? Would you have postponed the breakup until she got back? Is a breakup with a tan easier to swallow?”
The knife in my side keeps on twisting. Is it in these women’s genes to be able to cut me this way?
“That’s not…maybe I would have had time to think and not made that rash decision…”
I can’t say anymore.
“I like you, Jax. I’ve been pissed off at you for a while but I know you fucked up because you’re a man and you guys can’t help yourselves. But you’re a good one. You don’t want to use my sister and you make her smile. You need to wake up, though. That is before a boring, rich ass dud snatches her up. You’re wasting too much time.”
“Wake up? I called her every day for a week. Left her messages. I wanted to explain and tell her I’m sorry.”
