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“He’s here,” Zara says, eyeing the car parked outside the garage as we pull up at the house. Do you want to confront him? If you do, I can be backup. My brothers always say that I throw a mean right hook.”
“That depends,” I say as I park the car and we get out. “Are you still teaching boxing to rich idiots who could use a little beating?”
“How else would I pay my way?” she asks with a smirk while she cracks her knuckles. “Let’s do this.”
Despite my shitty mood, I laugh. “We’re not going to be hurting anyone. I’m going to tell him that I’m moving out. Can you head up to my room and start packing?”
Zara nods as we walk into the house. She heads straight upstairs while I take a final look around. I’m going to miss living here, but somehow Evan’s lie seems like one that I can’t overlook right now.
He’s known who I was and yet he let me believe that he was just a man I had the luck of meeting.
In reality, he orchestrated this entire thing. I don’t even know if he feels the same way about me that I feel about him.
With a sigh, I pull myself together. I can hear his voice faintly, coming from his office. I stand outside the door for a moment as he talks to someone who I assume is on the phone.
“Kendall is too young to understand what life is. I don’t regret the way I took care of her.”
I scowl, anger flooding through my body as I push open his door. Evan looks up, the color leaving his face as his eyes widen. He whispers a quick goodbye before hanging up the phone.
“You know, I might be young, but I understand a lot more about life than you give me credit for,” I say, standing across his desk from him. “After finding out the truth about you, I know without a doubt that you never gave me a real chance.”
“Kendall, please, let’s just talk about this.” He groans as his phone dings with a notification. “I have to get on a plane in a couple hours and I’ll be gone for a few days. Can’t we just sort this out before I leave?”
I shake my head. “You had weeks to talk to me about this. You could have done it well before I fucking fell for you but you didn’t. You picked the moment when it would hurt me the most.”
Evan sighs and runs his hand through his hair. He looks defeated as he leans back in his chair. “I still don’t know what you want me to say about this.”
“Nothing. I want you to say nothing.”
“Kendall.”
“Nothing.” I take a deep breath. “I’m going to stay with Zara. Congratulations on becoming a father, by the way, we can talk about custody later.”
I leave the room and slam the door behind me. Moments later, I hear glass shattering against the wall. I don’t bother to open the door or go back inside. Instead, I head up to my rooms and tell Zara that we’ll finish packing later.
“I heard everything,” she says as she hands me a duffel bag on her way down the stairs. I stop on the landing and smile at her, my eyes becoming glassy with unshed tears.
I’m done crying.
“We can get everything while he’s out of town. I don’t want to stay in this house any longer than I have to.”
“Going somewhere?” Blake asks, entering the kitchen with a sympathetic look on his face. “Do you want me to pack the rest of your things and have them brought over to you tomorrow?”
I throw myself at Blake, wrapping him in a hug. “I love you, you old fossil.”
Blake chuckles and smooths his hand over my hair. “I love you too, you little hellion. Even if you two can’t find a way to make it work, you better visit me every now and then.”
My mouth drops open as I pull back to look at him. “You knew?”
Blake smirks and shrugs before hugging me a little tighter. “Of course I knew. There isn’t much that goes on in this house that I don’t know about.”
I sigh as I step away from him. “Are you sure that you’re okay with packing up my belongings? I can come tomorrow after class but I have to be quick about it since I have a massive paper I have to write.”
Blake shakes his head, the corner of his mouth still curling upward. “Focus on school, little hellion. I can handle the packing.”
My eyes water as I hug him one last time. “I have your number. I’ll text you the address and sometime soon I’ll come visit.”
Zara loops her arm through mine as I let go of Blake. His gaze meets mine, his eyes glassy. I take a deep breath and smile before allowing Zara to lead me out of the house.
