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“Have a good night,” I tell her, and she nods.
“You too,” she says softly.
She closes the door, and I make my way back to my car dejectedly.
Don’t worry. You’ll go get a good night’s sleep and be back first thing in the morning;I promise myself as I slip back behind the wheel.
I sigh as I drive back home because I know it’s a lie. I’m not going to get any sleep tonight. Not with my future with Pia up in the air.
I need to win her back and then make sure she can never leave me again. I drive past a jewelry store as I pull out of her neighborhood and get a great idea.
I smile as I pull into the parking lot and park.
ELEVEN
Pia
I’ve managedto avoid Levi all weekend. Mainly by spending all of my time either locked in my room with Lila covering for me and telling him that I was out or sleeping or driving around town looking for jobs that I could apply for.
Now that it’s Monday, I think I’ve bought myself a window to relax. Levi will be at the office all day so I can hang out with Lila in the apartment and apply to as many jobs as I can find.
So far, it’s nine a.m. and I’ve already applied to a dozen different places. I’m hoping that if I spend all week applying to open positions, then maybe I’ll get a call back early next week and start a new job soon.
I checked the savings account, and we’re close to being able to afford the surgery soon. We just need to pinch a few more pennies.
A knock sounds at the door, and I frown. Lila is at her doctor’s appointment right now. I had offered to go with her, but she insisted she would be fine by herself. Her doctor’s office is only a few blocks away, and I know she can get sick of me hovering over her, so I relented and let her go.
So, who is at the door?
I stand, setting my laptop on the couch before I head over to answer it. When I swing the door open and see Levi standing there, I swallow hard.
Should have checked the peephole.
Though, with the determined look on his face, I doubt that he would have just left. The fact that he’s here when he should be at work and that he’s been by every day means that he’s not just going to let this, or me, go.
“Levi,” I choke out.
“Pia. We need to talk,” he says, pushing his way past me and into the apartment.
“About what?” I ask, feigning ignorance.
“You know what,” he snaps.
I close the door and turn to study him. He looks like a wreck. Dark circles are under his dull green eyes. His hair is a mess, like he’s been running his fingers through it all night.
I hate seeing him like this.
“So, you got my email then,” I try to joke, and he glares at me.
“Yeah, and I’m here to find out what happened.”
“What happened?” I ask.
“Yeah. I thought that we were happy. I thought that everything was good. Then, out of nowhere, you quit. What happened?” He asks me.
I swallow hard, torn between telling him the truth or making up some lie so that he doesn’t hate me for lying about who I really was when he hired me.
In the end though, I can’t lie to him anymore. That’s why I quit in the first place because I didn’t want to lie to him anymore.
