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I can’t stay here. I’m too upset.
I head to the door and he calls after me.
“Mia please don’t go.” He’s saying but I ignore him. I don’t want to hear it.
I don’t so I grab my bag and leave.
I walk down the road at first wishing I had my car. It’s parked at the club because Nick took me home today. I don’t know how I end up doing this but I call a taxi and I go to Nick’s house.
In my state of woe and anguish it’s usually Chloe that I run to, but my heart brought me here and I hope he’s there. We’d come straight from the club and he’d said he was going home to change.
It’s when I get on his doorstep that I realize I’m crazy. I am.
What am I doing here?
I shouldn’t be. I don’t belong here.
I’m at the door just standing there looking at the oak wood and the grooves in the pattern.
I’m panting and trying to hold back tears. I’m so stupid.
This is…
I have to go.
I take one step to leave but the door swings open. Nick’s standing on the door step in his dress shirt. A few buttons are undone and his hair is damp. He looks like he was busy getting ready for something.
“I’m sorry I shouldn’t be here. I’m going,” I say quickly and turn to go again but he catches my arm and pulls me back to him.
“Angel, what happened?” he asks.
I gaze deep into those eyes of his. In the bright sunlight they’re so much brighter. It’s not hard to remember what sent me to him in the first place. I don’t mean this visit.
The first, and more so the second visit.
What sent me to him is part of the same problem Carter created. I’m thinking of all of it now and I can’t stop. The images and fear floods my mind.
When Nick cups my face and touches me the enchantment to forget seeps into me and lures me to him. I’ve never been able to quite explain it. How could a man who’s both shocked me and thrown me completely outside of my element enchant me at the same time. How does that work?
He runs his finger over the skin of my jaw as the tears start flowing down my cheeks.
I look at him through the tears and I see someone else. He feels like something more to me. I feel it and I know I mustn’t tell him what happened or what is happening. I mustn’t tell him because I’m not supposed to involve anyone.
I’m not supposed to say anything to anybody.
I told Chloe because I know she can’t do anything other than support me. I know she physically can’t do anything even though she’s encouraged me to go to the police. She told me that a lot in the beginning because she freaked.
Telling Nick wouldn’t be the same thing. Look what he did to Marco Antonella.
I feel like it would be worse so I shake my head, cover my mouth and break down. He would be worse and then what would happen.
My life wasn’t supposed to be like this. I did so much to make sure I got to live a certain type of way. Not to have drug lords threatening to kill me and my family or me running to mobsters for help.
Then…falling for mobsters.
A mobster.
“Baby…” he breathes and cups my face with both hands. this is the first time he’s been like this with me. “Tell me what happened. Is your father okay?”
