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Stormy told me Thad wasn’t there at all that day. That he’d already left for MEPS but couldn’t reach me. I remember my phone breaking and having to use my mom’s. I called my aunt from it. Could everything have been a huge mistake?
There has been too much against us. I can’t let it all go. The hurt is the worst. I wanted Thad to be my one, but he wasn’t. He was right when he said I stayed with Phantom because I thought that’s what I deserved. I’d been beat down already.
The phone rings from the coffee table as I watchFerdinandwith Sky. We went to the movie theater when it came out, and since I bought it for her on digital, she watches it several times. I have to say I’m getting a bit sick of it, but at least she hasn’t watched it as much as she didFrozen. I’m ready for her to move on to a different movie though. Skyler and I had a talk finally about her father. I’ve never told her that he was dead or that he didn’t want her, even though I thought that. Instead, I told her he was busy in the military and someday she would meet him. So now I’ve told her he’s here and wants to meet her if she wants to meet him.
“Yeah.” I answer the phone while watching Sky dance around laughing at the movie.
“We need you down here right now. The bitch is back and causing issues with your staff,” River says into the phone. She and a few of the other girls were going to go to the bar and hang out.
I look down at my outfit I changed into after I showered from work. I’m in a crop top corset over another black crop top and shorts. The tops are so tight my breasts are pushed up. I guess part of me wanted to go hang out with them, but I was scared someone would know I was having doubts. Doubts about him.
“Frenchie is on her way to watch Little Bear.” River knows me so well.
I stand and move back to the table where I set my platform Goth open-toe heels. I slip them on and buckle them. I’m standing up and fluffy my hair in the mirror and checking my makeup I put on earlier when Frenchie hits the top stair.
“I knew it. So did Jinx. You’re up here hiding. Go down there and tell that B off.” Frenchie laughs and moves to sit down on the sofa. She won’t cuss in front of Sky. Frenchie was training to be a governess or nanny before she joined us, so she loves that she has Skyler to watch and keep an eye on. I pay her well to be there for her, but I don’t expect her to when I’m not working. She’s practically family, as far as I’m concerned.
“But you wanted to go out tonight.” I try really hard to get out of this. If troopers are called again, will he show up?
“Go, now,” she orders me and points.
“Bye, Sky, baby.” I kiss my daughter and then move down the stairs. I watch her dancing around with Rufus. I know between Frenchie and him my baby girl is always safe.
When I enter the back hallway, I can hear voices over the music from the bar. I push open my office door and check out the cameras. I see Monica sitting at a table with her friends again. Stormy is serving them. One of the girls has a crown and sash on. She’s obviously the bride-to-be from the amount of penis necklaces around her neck. They all take a shot, and I watch as Monica scolds Stormy and demands something. Stormy moves away toward the bar, and I look at the bar camera as she puts in another order. I check the POS system and see that another round is being comped for a different shot. A top-shelf liquor.
I’ve had enough. I head out into the main area, avoiding the bar and going straight to their table. One of the girls watches me approach and whispers something to Monica. She knows I’m coming, so I’m not unprepared for the words that come out of her mouth.
“Oh, Holly, I can’t wait until we are all sitting here celebrating my bachelorette party now that Thad has proposed to me.” She laughs and it’s so fake. There was a video circulating on social media of the two of them at Cookie Jar. It looks innocent, but she’s been bombarding the feeds with comments that they are back together and going to be setting a date soon. I doubt it because of the messages he’s sending me.
“That’s funny because I think he just told me about an hour ago that his focus right now is his daughter.” I let the words out, knowing this is the first time I’ve acknowledged he’s Sky’s father.
“Excuse me.” She spins around so fast I watch her eyes bounce for a moment while she gets her bearings. “What daughter?”
“Our daughter.”
Now she’s up and out of the chair. She and I are about the same height in these shoes. I look her in the eye and tip my head to the side.
“You don’t have a baby with him,” she hisses quietly because she’s under the assumption that the NDA is still in place. Little does she know. That means that she hasn’t been served yet, which is surprising. I know Uncle Joel was finding more evidence against her, so maybe that’s the delay.
“I do. She’s nine. Has his eyes too,” I say loud enough that the girls at the table hear me. A pin could drop in the building and everyone would hear it.
“You violated the agreement,” she hisses again.
I lean ever so tiny bit toward her. “Are you saying you know about a secret document that I was forced to sign along with hush money given to me? Trying to force me to have an abortion when I was only sixteen.” People gasp around us, and the music is absent so just about everyone can hear me now.
I watch as she steps back and looks around in shock. She recovers pretty quickly as the fake smile is back on her fake as fuck lips. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I wouldn’t be party to having a minor’s rights violated.” She tries to flip her hair, but it doesn’t go far as it’s pulled back in a ponytail.
I laugh and it sounds so wrong. I know it, and my girls move closer. I’m sure they have a feeling what’s about to happen. I need this. I need to beat the shit out of someone or fuck someone’s brains out. Since my body only wants Thad, I guess I’m going to have to fuck up his wannabe girlfriend.
“Oh, sweetheart, you were not only a part of it, you were a witness. I have the paperwork in a safe place. I used to have the five-thousand-dollar check in my wallet, but Thad has that now.” She steps back, shocked. Again, I lean forward wanting to further piss her off. “He knows everything. But don’t worry, you’ll soon be served papers, just like I had his mother served.”
“For what?” she sputters.
I step toward her. I need her to strike me first for this to work.
“For defamation of character and forcing me to sign that nondisclosure agreement.” My grin is big but doesn’t reach my eyes. One of the girls at the table is an idiot.
“Can you really do that?” she asks.
