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I frown at her. “Free?”
She nods and takes a sip of her drink. She’s a lot more controlled with her drink. I want to gulp down this one, too. Anything to drown out what’s happening. But drinking myself into a stupor won’t change it. I’ll just forget for a while.
And I won’t be likehim, running away from my life just because I want something different.
“Yeah, free,” Emma says. “You’ve been sitting on this secret for so long, terrified that it will come out, and it’s been eating you alive. But now, the whole world knows. You have no secrets anymore, nothing to keep running away from. Now, you get to live your life the way you want to, without trying to protect this piece of information.”
I blink at her. She’s right. I haven’t thought about it that way.
Everyone knows. Which means this secret, someone finding it out and using it against me… it’s all gone.
“Now, all you have to do is win back your woman.”
I clench my jaw and stare at the amber liquid in my tumbler, swirling it around and around.
“Who says I want to win her back?”
Emma rolls her eyes. “Look, I get you’ve been through hell and back and shit like what you’ve been through with your dad is unfair. You didn’t have a choice in the matter and you did the right thing to leave. But this thing with Rachel isn’t forced on you, and losing her is your choice.”
“She ratted me out.”
“Shedidn’t write that article.”
“No, but that asshole Evans did.”
“Did she run to him with the information?”
“No,” I say tightly because I have a feeling Emma is going to be right about this, too. And I hate it when she’s right because it means that I’m wrong, and this misery is my own fault. “She shared it with a friend in confidence,” I add.
“Right. If you love her, Blake, just go after her.”
I shake my head. I know Emma doesn’t get it, but it’s not that simple.
Emma nods, accepting my answer. It’s my choice, after all.
“I have to go. I have a client soon,” she says and stands. She walks to the door. “Blake,” she says, turning back to me. “If it's okay with you, I’d like to take back my resignation.”
“It’s okay,” I say, acting cool and nonchalant even though relief washes over me again.
“Good. Let’s do a session tomorrow.”
“Maybe Friday,” I say. “I’ll be out of town tomorrow.”
Emma smiles at me. “Okay, I’ll see you, then.”
I nod and she closes the door behind her. Her words echo in my mind.Win your woman back. I don’t know if I can do that.
Baby steps—this new life where everything is out in the open and I don’t have such a heavy burden to bear is one I need to get used to.
But I know what I can do right now.
I open my web browser and book a ticket to Texas.
Chapter 30
Rachel
“I look forward to seeing you, Ms. Sharpe,” I say over the phone with a smile.
