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“I’ll fix this,” he says, his voice so even and sure. It’s as if he knows without a doubt that there’s a solution to the problem.
As if his parents haven’t been making it clear that they want me gone for as long as we’ve been together.
“There is no fixing this, Evan. If there was a way to fix this, it would have been done already. This is the only solution.”
He looks at me, his eyes watery. “I don’t want to lose you. Fuck, Kendall, I’m supposed to be able to take care of my family.”
“Are you saying that because you owe it to me or because you think you owe it to my father?”
His silence is all the answer I need.
“Great. Well, I’m going to be moving back in with Zara for a bit. It’s what makes the most sense. Where I’m going to go from there, I don’t know yet.”
“You don’t have to do this.”
I pace over to the window and look down at the people walking around below. From up here, everything down there seems so small and insignificant. It’s the same way too much money makes the rich look down on the poor.
It’s the way I’ve been looked down on since I entered his life.
“This relationship seems like you have some sense of duty to my father rolled into it. I can’t keep questioning whether you love me for me, or if you love me for him. My leaving is what’s best for both of us.”
I step closer to him and stand on my toes, brushing my lips against his in a final kiss that shatters my heart. When I look at him, the pain I feel is reflected in his eyes.
“Please let me go.”
24
EVAN
Thehouseisemptywithout Kendall. It seems darker and dreary. I don’t come home to a smiling face dancing around the living room and having a good time.
Instead, I come home to Blake’s disapproving stare and pursed lips. He makes sure that he’s never in the same room as me for very long.
I don’t know what Kendall did to win his loyalty, but it’s mildly impressive.
Just mildly.
However, the fact that even Blake isn’t speaking to me is another reminder of how fucked up my entire life has become.
A week without the love of my life seems to bring nothing but misery. I want her back in my life, but I don’t know what to say or do to get her back.
She doesn’t want me to ruin my relationship with my parents while I don’t want to ruin my relationship with her.
Kendall and our baby matter more to me than anything else. She still thinks that it has something to do with her father.
As much as I hate to admit it, in a way it does.
I told him that I would always be there for her. I was supposed to be the one protecting her. Instead, I let the people I loved the most hurt her.
I let them accuse her of horrible things. I allowed them to think it would be alright to step into my home and try to kick her out.
Then, for just a moment, I allowed myself to believe that she would have taken the money.
I run my hands through my hair, feeling the wave of self-loathing rush through me again. I don’t know how I could think that about her when she’s done nothing but refuse my money.
Kendall is nothing like the other women I’ve dated.
That’s why I grab my keys and head over to my parents’ house. It’s time that we end this shit now. I’m not going to let them keep scaring away Kendall.
