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I shrug. “I can multitask.”
“Or is it all that magical pussy you’re getting now?” Kevin elbows me. “Makes you smarter.”
“The fuck?” Gavin grumbles, glaring at Kevin.
My response isn’t so subtle. With far more force than I should, I knock my arm into Kevin’s shoulder. “Watch your fucking mouth. It’s not pussy.”
Kevin smirks. “Oh, now that you’re engaged, it magically transformed into something else.”
“Doesn’t matter. Fucking asshole. Point is, you don’t talk about another man’s wife that way. The hell is wrong with you?”
Gavin nods beside me. “You’re an idiot, Kev. You obviously haven’t been eating from the magical pussy,” he says with a laugh.
“Jay,” Garreth calls from behind us.
The tone of his voice has me turning, and when I catch sight of his concerned expression, my smile drops.
“Have you seen the news?”
“What news?”
“There was an explosion outside of James Liquors.”
68
KARMA BY TAYLOR SWIFT
Cat
My father is dead.
And no matter how many times I utter the words, I still don’t feel a thing.
My father is dead, Grace was injured, and my brother is a basket case who’s shadowing Grace’s every move. Not that I blame him. Jay is just as bad, and I wasn’t anywhere near the explosion two weeks ago.
“Seriously, Jay, I’m fine,” I huff. Again.
“Are you sure you don’t want to talk about it?”
“Did you want to talk about your father after he died?” I counter.
His face falls, and immediately, I feel like shit.
“I’m sorry,” I say, pressing my palm to his cheek. “That was horrible.”
Shaking his head, he pulls me onto his lap. “I just want to be here for you. I know that I had a strained relationship with your father—”
“Ihad a strained relationship with my father,” I remind him. “You hated the man.” I let out a low laugh, although none of this is funny.
“He was still your father.” Jay cuddles me closer. “No matter how much I hated him, you’re in this world because of him.”
I sigh. Nothing in life is truly uncomplicated, I suppose. “Honestly, I’m fine. Do I wish that I had spoken to my father more than that one time in the past ten years? That he had even tried to be a better human? Yes. Obviously. But the last thing he ever did was try to kill my brother’s pregnant girlfriend. He’s not worth mourning.”
The motives surrounding Grace’s kidnapping and attempted murder are murky at best. None of it makes sense. Why would my father go after her? Outside of the night of my engagement party, none of us had seen or heard from him in years. What did Cash do to upset him so much?
Asking Cash is pointless. I won’t get a straight answer. If he even has one.
All I can do is let go and move on.
