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The thought comes to me to tell him I’m pregnant and maybe it will stop him from wanting me.
Maybe.
“I’m pregnant.” I blurt. “Please… just leave me alone. I can’t be with you the way you want.”
To my horror his gaze drops to my stomach and he laughs. He places a horrible hand to my stomach and shakes his head.
“I’m sure we can fix your situation. Tomorrow at tenBellezza. This is the second time I’m showing you compassion.”
Arms loosen around me and my own feel like dead weights hanging by my sides.
He walks off and I watch.
Darkness fills me when I realize what I have to do.
Chapter Thirty-Two
Gabe
She’s up earlybut lying in the bed.
Last night should have been a better night but it wasn’t. I was at the event in body but not in spirit at all.
I’ve been on calls since the sun came up. The other day we started trying to track down Tobias. It was purely a measure to keep tabs on him. It was a no go, however. We found fuck all.
I just hung up the phone from speaking to Vincent. I’m grateful he’s been on the case, more since Tobias’s last sighting with Charlotte.
I make my way into the bedroom and see she’s dressed, but fuck, she has a bag packed. Her bag is packed and I’m thrown because it feels like we’re at that place again where I’m trying to convince her to stay with me.
She looks like she’s been crying too. Her eyes are puffy and so is her face… her skin is pale.
“Hi baby, what’s this? Why is your bag packed?”
Her lips part and she starts to say something but stops and starts again.
“Hi… I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and I’ve decided this isn’t right.”
“What do you mean?” I tense and try to stay calm.
“Gabe none of this is right… I just can’t be around anyone. This is the very thing I didn’t want and it’s happening.”
Holy fucking hell. She can’t be serious.
“What’s brought this on? You were okay last night.”
“I was…then we got home and it hit me. All of it hit me like a ton of bricks. All the danger, and Tobias. I have to leave Gabe. I have to. It’s better for everyone if I do, and better for you.”
“Charlotte, baby, what the fuck? You can’t leave, he’ll find you. This is what he wants. You can’t just leave.”
“Gabe, I can’t stay here, it’s just too much… I can’t be with you.” She keeps her eyes steadily trained on me.
I can’t believe what I’m hearing and I almost feel like I’ve walked into some kind of alternate dimension because the Charlotte who told me she loved me only days ago could never say those words to me.
“What do you mean you can’t be with me?” I have to ask.
“It hasn’t escaped me that I dragged you into this mess. You paid over a million dollars to a madman so he would leave me alone and he’s still coming for us. Look what almost happened to you. That’s my fault.”
I walk up to her and feel like shaking her. She must know how fucked up leaving will be.
