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In seconds, a shot glass is in my hand, and I fill it to the rim with vodka. “I thought you hated her.”
One shot down.
She pushes her hands into her pockets. “Me, too, but now, I hate you. I thought she’d hurt you, not the other way around. You, my dumbass brother, are to blame for losing her.”
Another shot knocked back.
I’d offer Liz some, but who knows how long I’ll be drowning in my pity?
I slam my glass down. “I did it because I didn’t want her to worry about me with Jessa. She was already having trust issues. I fucking did it because I finally had a woman I’d wanted for years and was afraid of losing her.”
She snatches the glass from me, pours herself a shot, and downs it. “All of those reasons are what made her leave. Had you told her about Jessa and your daughter, she’d be here. You were a dumbass.”
Another shot.
“How did she find out?” she asks.
“Fucking Jessa,” I answer through clenched teeth.
“I never liked her. I might’ve hated her more than I did Sierra back then.”
“Join the club.”
“You’d better go rip Jessa a new fucking asshole.”
“Trust me, I plan to.”
“When do I get to meet the little one?”
“Now that the news is out, whenever, I guess.”
Another goddamn shot.
* * *
Callingher drunk is a bad idea.
Fuck good ideas.
I’ve already proven I exceed at bad fucking ideas.
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” I scream at Jessa over the phone.
“I’ve been waiting for your call,” she replies.
I slam the shot glass on the island.
“She needed to know, and you didn’t have the balls to tell her. It’s not like I went to Ellie’s, planning to break the news, but she was there, and I figured,Why not?” Her voice is chipper. Goddamn chipper after ruining my life.
Why not?
Her words only fuel the fire burning inside me.
“You’re telling me, you walked around with a copy of our paternity test?”That’s some weird, manipulative shit.
“I never took it out of my purse.”
I stay quiet.
