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At least, I hope she will.
Two hours later, we’re done. Hilary is out of town for the night, so she asked me to stay with Jeb to close up.
“Do you want to talk about it?” he asks, surprising me.
Jeb hadn’t said anything about what happened when I’d slipped back into the shop after taking five minutes.
“Not really.”
“Understood.” He flicks the light switches.
“You’ve got a ride home?”
“To the dorms, yeah.”
“What’s that like, boarding at the school? Although I imagine it’s more like a five-star hotel.” He smirks.
“It’s... okay, I guess.” The lie rolls off my tongue.
I’ve never liked being there. It’s closer to a prison than a hotel, but I don’t tell him that. But it’s all I have now.
“I’ll wait with you until your friend gets here.” Jeb pulls open the door but quickly staggers back. It isn’t until he’s falling that I realize that Tim is looming over him.
“Jeb!” I shriek as his body lands with a resounding thud. He groans, and then nothing.
“Oh my God, what did you do?” I back up, fear trickling down my spine.
“None of this would be happening if it wasn’t for you.” He shuts the door and hangs the ‘closed’ sign before twisting the blinds.
My eyes dart between him and Jeb, who is still out cold on the floor. The gentle rise and fall of his chest gives me some reassurance, but nothing about this is good.
“Tim, this is crazy... you’re scaring me.”
He prowls toward me with a menacing smile. “Innocent little dove. But you aren’t so innocent, are you?” He spits the words. “Did you really think you could abort my baby and get away with it?”
“W-what?” Emotion slams into me. “I didn’t... that’s not what happen—”
“DON’T FUCKING LIE TO ME,” he roars, the words reverberating deep inside me. “I know the truth. I know everything.”
“But that’s not what happened. My parents, they—”
“Hid you here so I couldn’t get to you.”
A strangled laugh spills from my lips but quickly dies as he grabs me around the throat and pins me to the wall.
“You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried,” I spit. “My parents weren’t hiding me. They banished me here because of you!”
For a second, his mask of rage slips, confusion clouding his eyes. But then it’s gone, replaced with nothing but burning hatred.
“You should have told me,” he hisses.
“They wouldn’t let me. They told me you wanted nothing to do with me, that I jeopardized everything. They even made me sign a contract.”
“A contract?”
“Yes, your parents and my—“
His grasp on my throat tightens. “Stop fucking lying. You killed my child. My. Heir. You think you just get to walk away from that?”
