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“That’s enough,” Dad spat viciously. “You will not speak to your mother like that.”
“But I see you’re not defending your other son,” I pointed out.
He stepped to me, my mother at his back, looking on helplessly. “You are out of your mind if you think that we’re going to stand back and watch you throw away your entire future for a girl who doesn’t deserve you,” he hissed in my face. “Kincaid Black is going to destroy you if she has the chance. How can you not see that?”
As angry as I was, I couldn’t even be mad at him for feeling this way. Again, he saw what she’d done to me three years ago. There was more at stake here than just my future. My sanity was at risk more than anything else. He knew it, too. Both my parents knew it. Kincaid might scare the organization for a lot of reason, but she scared my parents for the sheer fact that they’ve already seen what she was capable of doing to me.
Could I really blame them?
“She already did that once, Dad. Remember?” Of course, he did.
He shook his head. “Like I could forget.” He eyed me. “You’re my son, Fox. I know exactly what that girl did to you.”
I cocked my head when something occurred to me. “You know, you say you know exactly what she did to me, but you’ve never asked me what it was that I might have done to her. Why?”
“Because you’re not your brother,” he replied quickly and easily. “You’re a good man, Fox. For you to have loved her as much as you did, there’s no way you would have done anything ill to her.”
“Perhaps,” I conceded.
“Fox, there are a million girls who would love a chance at dating you,” my mother added. “Why not give them a chance? Why does it have to be Kincaid Black?”
I looked past my dad, so that I could look my mother in the eye. “It’s been three years, Mom,” I told her. “Three years, and I still felt like I couldn’t breathe in any happiness as long as Kincaid existed but wasn’t with me.” Her mouth opened in a silent gasp. “Truth be told, I still feel that way.” Ignoring my father, I made my way over to my mother. “Everything is fine until she enters the room. Suddenly, all the colors aren’t as vibrant as they once appeared next to her. Suddenly, all conversation sounds like radio static. Suddenly, all the faces are featureless masks. Suddenly, I’m not suffocating in the misery of just existing. Suddenly, I’m a-fucking-live, Mom.”
Tears gathered in the corner of her eyes. “Oh, son…”
I turned back towards my dad. “Is she going to destroy me? Probably,” I agreed again. “Lord knows that she possesses the power to do so. Will I recover a second time? Probably not.”
“Fox-”
I shook my head at him. “I’m not a glutton for punishment, Dad. Honest. I just know what it feels like to be with her and what it feels like not to have her, and not having her hurts way worse than a broken heart.”
“You’re making a mistake,” he said. “I know that you don’t want to hear it, but it’s true. Kincaid Black is…I just think she’s more than you’re capable of handling. Hell, more than any man can handle.”
He wasn’t wrong.
“And that makes her the most magnificent thing that I have ever seen,” I told him.
Knowing that we were at a stalemate, he finished this conversation like he had the other one. “Just…just call me if you need anything.”
“No problem,” I lied again.
No one wanted to be told ‘I told you so’.
