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“My Spidey senses are tingling too, Dominic. Just get there and make sure she’s okay.”
“She doesn’t want to see me,” I mumble as I head into the parking garage and grab my car.
“Yes, she does.” She pauses. “Be warned though, she’s lost a bit of weight.”
“What?”
“She’s not eating and no one really knows what’s going on. There’s only so much I can do from MIT. I can’t force it down her throat.”
“No one has been to see her?”
“No, not that I know of.”
“Fuck. I should have had food sent there.” I shake my head. I’d been so caught up in my own pain and trying not to think about how bad I’d destroyed the woman I love, I had overlooked the fact that she might not take care of herself.
“That’s not the point, Dominic. She wouldn’t have eaten it. I had my mom drop off food a few times, and Stassia still had it sitting on the counter untouched a day later when we Skyped.”
“You said she was doing okay,” I growl into the phone.
“She had one good day and a few others here and there, but overall, she’s not doing well, Dominic. She misses you so much.”
“I miss her,” I confess in a moment of weakness.
“Then get her back!”
I’m definitely caught off guard by her reaction.She didn’t think I was sick for wanting her? Needing her? Falling completely in love with her?“You’re not weirded out by it?” I ask as I pull out of the garage.
“No. I mean…it’s strange or whatever, but you’re not her father and people seem to forget you spent most of the last seven years hating each other. Well…shehatedyou. It’s not like you guys were going on father daughter dates and hanging out. Sure sometimes, she tolerated you but overall, you kind of annoyed her.”
“Thanks,” I reply sarcastically though I could have guessed as much. I saw more of Stassi’s back as she stormed away than I did anything else when she was growing up.
“Oh, get out of your feelings! Why the hell did you end it? And so fucking nastily.”
I let out a deep sigh. “I had to, Kate.”
“Tell me why.”
I take a deep breath as I prepare to tell her the truth, but only because I might murder Micah when I arrive at the house so it’ll probably all come out anyway. “Micah had us followed, Kate. A PI, a fucking good PI that had all kinds of pictures of us. Very clear, very vivid, very explicit pictures. She’s naked, I’m naked, we are together, touching, fucking, you name it. Then he found out I was her math teacher in fifth grade. He put all these pictures together in a fucking folder and shoved it in my face and said he’d release them to everyone Stassia and I know if I didn’t leave her.”
The silence on the other end is deafening.
“That son of a bitch.” The voice I hear isn’t Kate’s though. It’s Stassia.
“Wait…Stassi?” My heart hurts just saying her fucking name.
“I’ll kill him. Literally. I am going to commit murder.”
“How…how is this happening? Someone speak,” I growl as I continue to zip through traffic.
“I’m Skyping with Stassi,” Kate answers. “I have you on speakerphone.”
“Why?”
“Because I needed to know the truth, Dominic,” Stassia answers. “I knew…I knew in my heart he’d done something; I just didn’t know it was this bad.” I hear her sniffle. “Are you really coming home?”
“Yes. Is he really there?” I ask, wondering if all of this was just a ruse to get us in the same room.
“Not yet, but he will be in an hour. We need to face him together, Dominic. I’m not afraid of him and you shouldn’t be either. I’m not going to let some asshole I’ve known three minutes with a God complex run my life. But I’ll talk to you when you get here.”
