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“Are you fucking kidding me?” I yelled, smashing the glass into the bar. He was going to just leave me as a sitting duck while he antagonized our enemies… it was unbelievable. I knew he strongly disliked me, but I’d had no idea it had morphed into full-on hate.
Well, that was just fine. I didn’t particularly fucking like him either.
“It’s your choice, son.” He shrugged casually and turned away from me again, signaling the conversation was over.
My stomach felt like it had just dropped out of my ass…
I stood up but my knees were weak. How could he do this to me?
I staggered from the club and out onto the icy street. It was a miracle I was able to stay on my feet.
Stay here?
Be his right hand? … it was what I’d been running from for ten years, and now it had finally caught up with me.
I wandered for a while with no clue where I was headed, but suddenly the building to my left looked familiar. This was where Cait lived. I knew because I drove by pretty much every time I was in town, just in case she was stepping out of her door or wandering down the street at that very moment.
I froze.
Shit.
Why had I come here?
I was acting like a deranged stalker at this point.
“What areyoudoing here?” A voice snapped out from behind me. I spun on my heel, but of course, I already knew who it was.
“I don’t really know,” I answered, but there was a slight slur in my voice. The world was rocking… or was that me?
She scowled at me, reaching into her pocket and pulling out a set of keys. “Well you better get out of here, your sister will be here any minute. Your father is making her stay with me while he secures her apartment after the fire.”
“I don’t care. I need to talk to you.”
Her brow crooked with surprise, and to tell the truth, I was pretty surprised at what had just come out of my mouth as well.
She brushed past me, jamming the key into the front door. “You disappear for ten years and now you want to talk?”
Urgh! This woman!
I grabbed her elbow, pulling her round to face me. “I did not disappear for ten years. I’ve been around, never at the same time as you of course, but it’s hardly my fault you made up some stupid rule-”
In the same move, she snatched her arm back, but got in my face, cutting me off. “You could have called, or texted or sent me a stupid postcard at any point, and you didn’t.”
“Neither did you.”
“I wasn’t the one who left!”
“Will you let that go!”
Suddenly, a chuckle from a passerby behind us made me realize I had her pressed against her door. We were nose to nose, our chests heaving with anger and frustration… but every breath she sucked in, grazed her breasts against my chest and my God, did it feel like heaven.
She seemed to realize in the same moment too and planted her hands on my chest, shoving me back.
“No. I won’t let it go. Not now, not ever,” she snapped. “I hate you.”
I drew in a fiery breath. She was just impossible. And also a goddam liar. “If you hate me, how come you wear the bracelet I gave you?” I grabbed the arm of her jacket, bringing her wrist up to her face so she could see the glittery charm sparkling in the daylight.
She couldn’t hate me that much if she still wore a reminder of me every day.
