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And ultimately, if anything can be bought in life, and love and feelings are not as strong as they’re meant to be.
Although no one has talked about love.
This is also about something else. How devilish this proposal actually is.
This money could give me a cushion and make me less dependent on our original deal. By getting the money, I wouldn’t feel compelled to do this or the other.
I have to work for their money, wait, be patient, and learn how to manage it––our agreement teaching me, among other things, some financial discipline.
Cardenas money could be in my account on Monday.
Hmm.
They must’ve all signed off on this.
There’s no other way.
If I say yes, and go ahead with it, although I can’t imagine how this would work, I’ll gain some independence.
I could walk out on them at any given moment. I’ll be in the driver’s seat.
A million dollars is a lot of money for someone like me. I can’t even imagine my life on Tuesday morning. Or Wednesday.
Or the rest of the week.
I could do things, buy things, help Giana. My foster parents. I could do so much stuff.
Maybe at that point, I wouldn’t need anything else.
And maybe this is also a way to test me and see if I’m willing to continue. If I’m doing it because I like them––I do––but also because I’m greedy.
I call it practical.
But what is it in this for him? For this man? For Cardenas?
I look at Roman.
“How do you think that would happen?” I ask the logical question, hinting that I’m considering his proposal.
“Don’t worry about the how… Let that to me. I’ll make it happen. I promise that you’ll like it.”
Something is off.
Why would Kai so easily want him to be a part of our agreement?
How could he expect me to say yes?
Well, I’m considering it, aren’t I?
“Like the rest of us, he is bound by our terms,” Kai says, trying to tilt the scale in Roman’s favor.
Kai. Kai is taking me by surprise again. Switching everything around.
Just as I thought I had him figured out, he tosses something else at me.
Just as I thought I got a glimpse of a storm inside his soul, he’s testing my resoluteness again.
Just as I thought having his lips on my eyes and my tears meant something for both of us––and I swear it did, despite everything that’s going on right now––he takes me on a different journey.
