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I want to get my shit out of the office before my father arrives.
I know the same way I was told the contracts had been pulled that he would have gotten that call too.
I packed up, and just as I finished, he walked in through the open door.
Instead of the fury I expected on his face; however, I saw confusion.
He opens his mouth to speak, and I hold up my hand, stopping him.
“Don’t, please. I don’t know what you were told, but I’m sure Donny gave you a reason why he pulled everything.”
“He called me,” Dad states stiffly.
“Well, then, there’s nothing more that needs to be said.”
“And you’re leaving again?.”
“I promised you I’d never disappoint you ever again. Three months haven’t even passed by properly yet, and I did. This is worse than the last time.” I bite down so hard on my bottom lip I taste blood. Dad stares back at me, unrelenting because he knows I’m right. “I’ve paid the three million you stand to lose.”
“You didn’t have to do that.”
“Yes, Dad, I did. Now maybe you won’t hate me as much. Maybe I won’t disappoint you as much as I have, and maybe you won’t wish Carson was your son and not me.”
“None of that is true.”
“Yes, Dad… it is.”
There’s a lot in my words. A lot of hurt. A lot of pain.
A lot of wounds that haven’t been healed, and they are so deep I don’t know where we’ll begin to truly fix them. So I walk out, leaving him to the blunt edge of my words.
We were on a roll, and then I fucked up. Again.
A person can’t keep making the same mistakes over and over again. I just never intended to hurt anybody this time.
The first time I was reckless as fuck, and I didn’t care what happened. I can admit now that I was resentful toward life because I lost my true career, and I never had any respect for the company.
I do now, but I just can’t think about how bad things will be if I stay and fight.
I can’t do it when the only person I want to fight for is Evie.
Since last night, I’ve kept asking myself how the fuck Peter knew what was going on. The only thing I could come up with is there had to be one of the guards at Cordelia’s place who was keeping an eye on us, and I’m guessing Peter padded his pockets well.
That’s the only explanation that sounds feasible to me.
When Georgiou and I left Cordelia’s place, we both felt like a pair of idiots.
The shit that happened is what you’d expect from younger guys who don’t know better, but then we wouldn’t have known that anything could happen at the house.
Now it doesn’t matter because we lost her.
We lost Evie, and fuck knows what else Donny will do. He almost killed Georgiou, and when he looked at me, it was with disappointment and like I’d taken advantage of his only pride. I guess he was right.
We should have stayed away from Evie. We had a chance to and never took it.
When I get home, I feel like shit, so I grab a bottle of wine and spend the rest of the day in the pool doing laps and in my room watching tv.
There’s no sign of Georgiou. When he left the house this morning, he hasn’t left any messages, and he didn’t go to work today. Chances are he went sailing to escape the shit while I went into the line of fire, right into the dragon’s lair.
