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“Far enough from you.” I was being cold, but I guess my pride was still hurt.
“When will you be back?”
“I don’t know.”
“Do you want to come back to LA?”
“I don’t know.”
“Can I come to see you where you are?”
“No,” I bit out. There was no way I was going to allow her to mix with Danny. This was my happy bubble, and I didn’t want anyone in my happy bubble.
I heard her sniff on the other end of the phone, and this pang hit my chest. I hated it when she cried. Tears were my kryptonite. I never knew what to do when a woman started crying. It made me flustered and confused—two things I could not afford to be around her anymore.
Before she could say anything else, I hung up on her. Had I been an asshole? Yes. Was it a necessary evil I had to perform? Yes.
I threw my phone to the side and flipped through the channels. I finally landed on some music channel that had Lord Arthur, some wannabe rockstar playing. Giving up on distracting myself, I got up and made my way to the kitchen and grabbed a beer from the fridge.
I looked out to the main house, which was not too far from the small cottage. All the lights were out, but Danny’s room was still on.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I walked back to retrieve my phone. I walked back to the kitchen and stared out my window at the house. I punched in her number and waited.
She answered on the second ring.
“Hello?”
“Did I wake you?”
“No, not at all.” I heard some shuffling in the background. “What’s up? Are you okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. I actually wanted to check up on you to see if you were okay?”
“Me?”
“Mhmm.”
“Well, I’m fine. No need to worry about me.” Her voice went up a little at the end, and that was her tell. She was a shit liar.
I let out a soft chuckle. “I can still tell when you are lying, you know that?”
“No you can’t,” she said in a playful defensive tone. “And I’m not lying. I am okay. I’ve just had a long day.”
“How is Axel?”
She sighed heavily. “He’s fine. He is a little moody, though. I just don’t know what will take him out of this slump. I knew that one day he would ask about his dad, but I just never thought that it would be this soon. I needed more time.”
She sounded like she was on the brink of tears.
“I just feel like I’m failing him as a mother somehow. I am trying my best, but I just feel like he will end up resenting me. But I know that man, and he wanted nothing to do with Axel now, and I am damn sure he wants nothing to do with him now. Axel is better off not knowing him.”
She was silent for a moment.
“Do you need comfort or council?”
“What?”
“Do you want council, like I could give you advice on the matter and help you sift through your thoughts? Or do you need comfort? Where I am just here to make you feel better and listen to you.”
