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I frowned. “I… what do you mean?”
Kim’s lips parted, and she took a tiny step backward. “Oh, I just um… I’m sorry. I assumed that because of the whole thing with Kellen this morning, you’d—”
“What thing with Kellen this morning?”
“Oh.” She cringed. “You… didn’t know.”
“Didn’t knowwhat?”
She looked like she’d rather swallow razor blades than tell me, but she motioned for me to follow her to her desk. She put my new laptop down, and went to her own, where she typed in something in a search box that quickly pulled up what she’d assumed was causing me to have a bad day.
“I’m going to kill him.”
Those words were out of my mouth before I could even fully process what I was seeing, and the next moment, my phone was in my hand, and I was dialing his number.
“I’m going tokill you,” I hissed into the phone, as soon as he answered, sounding groggy and relaxed, as if he’d just woken up, even though it was almost eleven in the morning.
That only incensed me further.
“You lazy, pathetic, conniving, useless son of a bitch,” I jeered. “You couldn’t even give me twenty-four hours before you justhadto go running to tell the press you knocked up your whore. I am sick of you, and sick of your bullshit, Kellen. I have tried, and tried, and tried again to simply fucking ignore you, and you just can’t seem to let me have any peace. Well, I amdone. I hope you enjoy this, because this is the last time you’ll do something to hurt me, motherfucker. I promise youthat.”
I should have hung up.
I should have said what I needed to say, and hung up the phone, but no. I waited for his response. And he… laughed.
A long, hearty laugh, that only made my blood boil hotter.
“Oh, Monica, sweetie. Webothknow that’s an empty threat. See, if youcouldget rid of me, you would’ve already done it. But you won’t, because you know what I’m taking with me when I go – half of the only baby your bitter ass will ever have. So really, you aren’t gonna do shit, but sit on the phone cry and take whatever the fuck I decide to do.”
“We’ll see about that.”
Then, I did hang up, and only barely repressed the urge to launch the phone at the wall. I took a deep breath, then turned back to Kim.
“When did this news break?”
She shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe thirty minutes ago? Chloe called the office looking for you, said you weren’t answering your cell phone.”
“Fuck,” I muttered under my breath. I’d left it silenced on the ride from FSE so that I could have some time to think and reflect without any interruptions, but apparently that wasn’t in the cards for me today.
“Set up the laptop for me,” I told Kim, then stalked into my office to call Chloe.
We had yetanothercrisis to figure out.
It would have been nice to talk to Wick.
No – Ineededto talk to Wick.
This was our… thing. It had become something like a habit – Kellen shows his ass, I call Wick and complain about it. It was a wonder, honestly, that he hadn’t simply stopped talking to me because he was sick of hearing me whine about my husband, but he always took it in stride. He served as the sounding board that I desperately needed – the male perspective that I wouldn’t have considered otherwise.
He was the only reason I even remotely understood my own damned husband.
Understanding him didn’t make me feel any better though.
In fact, I would have much preferred being confused by his current actions, than knowing for certain that his hatred of me ran so horribly deep.
But when I was talking to Wick – when itwasn’tabout Kellen – it was easy to completely forget him. And forgetting him… was exactly what I needed to do.
I couldn’t make myself dial the number though. I couldn’t make myself send that text, because everything was so all over the place, between Kellen’s bullshit and the hacking and the social media scandal thing, my head was swimming with questions and mistrust and…
