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“No!” she shrieks, recoiling, my touch appearing to repulse her.
“Don’t do this. Please don’t do this.”
My feeble voice betrays my fear. But I don’t care. The only good, decent thing in my life is about to walk out that door, and I wouldn’t blame her if she never came back. I’ll grovel, beg at her feet if I need to, but a small part of me knows it was bound to come to this.
“Don’t do what?” she cries, her fingers unsteady as she brushes back her long hair.
I deserve this.
I’m a man-whore.
And I’m a coward.
I don’t deserve this beautifulangelo’s love. I never did. But I wanted it so badly I thought consequences be damned. But now, now I’ve gone and fucked it all up.
“I’m sorry. It’s not what you think.” But it is.
Iwasmeeting up in this fleabag motel to conspire with her sister—a sister who truly represents sin.
“I hope it’s not what I think because if it is, then I don’t know who you are.”
Words have never hurt more than those just spoken.
“I’m the same man I was this morning. I’m the same man who loves you more than life itself. That hasn’t changed. That’ll never change,” I press, stepping forward, needing to touch her. But she steps away, nothing but disgust in her eyes.
“Just tell me one thing…what are you doing here?”
I could lie. I mean, that’s all I’ve been doing. But when you can no longer distinguish between the lies you’ve told and the truth, it’s time to come clean.
My silence is cementing my guilt.
“Tell me this isn’t what I think it is, and I’ll forget I ever saw you here.”
Everything at this moment is heightened—the clock on the discolored wall sounds in time with my lashing heart, my heavy breathing is in sync with the wild wind thrashing about outside, but most of all the torrent of tears streaming down Madison’s cheeks are in concert with my drowning soul.
“Dixon?” Her lower lip trembles as she waits for me to remedy this situation.
Every inch of my body is telling me to lie, but I can’t. I do the only decent thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.
I say nothing at all.
“I thought so,” she whispers brokenly after a minute of silence.
Her beautiful green eyes reveal nothing but betrayal as she yanks open the door. “Goodbye, Dr. Mathews. Thank you for being the biggest regret of my life,” she sobs, her voice stuck in her throat.
I want to say so many things, but I don’t. I simply stand numbly and watch the best thing in my life walk out on me. And for once, I do the right thing.
I let her go.
Now...
Ifucked up.
I’ve just made the biggest mistake of my life…I trusted Juliet.
But who am I kidding? The biggest mistake was the day I met Juliet Harte.
She fucked me. And she fucked me hard. I should have smelled a rat, seeing as I literally smelled one when she sent me to this shithole dump. I should have known it was too good to be true because Juliet would never let me off that easily, but I wanted to believe that this was finally over. Now I know it has only just begun.
