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“Dillon—”
“She’s not going to wait forever.” Dillon told me. “I’m going to check on Eli—maybe we can watch a movie. Should I tell him about the threat?”
“If you want to start this relationship out on a strong footing, Dillon, never lie to him.” I explained. “Don’t hide anything—a lie by omission is still a lie. Sometimes the truth will hurt, but it’s the right thing to do.”
Dillon nodded.
“Come here.” I stood.
When he stepped toward me, I hugged him tightly, kissed his head then watched him wander from my office.
My knees wanted to give out them. The only thing I wanted to do in that moment was let the exhaustion consume me—to give up.
Instead, I grabbed a couple beers from the fridge and made my way across the yard. I sat beside Seema on the front steps, pry the lid off one beer and handed it to her.
After I’d opened mine, I held it up to her.
“To the idiots we once were.” I exhaled.
She tapped her bottle to mine and drank.
“There was a time when I would have done anything for this woman.” I explained to her. “Because not only was she the love of my life—or so I thought, but she was the mother of my son.”
“No one fan fault you for that.” Seema’s voice trembled. “We all make love mistakes—some worse than others.”
“Have one of your exes ever tried killing you and your son?”
“I don’t have a son.”
I sucked my teeth.
“You know what I mean.” I afforded myself another sip. “But as I sit here all I can feel is this rage tangled up in my chest like a knot.”
“How’s Dillon doing?”
“He took it better than I’m taking it.”
“Teenagers are resilient.” Seema told me.
I agreed, but I would prefer not having my son being afraid his mother is going to pop out of the dark and Molly whop him upside the head. It was a shit scenario, and I could kill Audrey for doing this.
She couldn’t have signed the papers fast enough—an extra five million was all it took.
It wasn’t about the money for me—my business was successful, and I made that money back in less than a month.
But having her come after Dillon—
“And he’s gay.”
Seema nodded.
“Well.” She raised her bottle as in a toast before sipping. “At least you kind of even things out. One bad thing with his mother and one good thing with Eli.”
“It’s not funny.”
“You can accept Levi but not Dillon?” Seema demanded.
“That’s not what I mean.” I sighed and stretched my legs out in front of me. “He’s my baby no matter who he loves. And you have to admit, for his first time, he chose a good one.”
