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“And this place smells like shit.” She turned on the water in the bathroom. “No wonder. You puked last night, but your aim wasn’t very good.”
It didn’t come back to me, but the way I felt, it didn’t surprise me. This morning nothing would surprise me.
“I’m going to charge extra for this,” she yelled from the bathroom.
I hid under the pillow while she bitched about cleaning up my barf.
She pulled the covers off me. “Time to get up and join the living.”
I pulled the covers back up. “What are you doing here, anyway?”
“Samantha called. She was worried when you didn’t come into work and wouldn’t answer your phone. She expected you in before court.”
Fuck.
“What time is it?” I asked.
“A little before two.”
I had missed it. “Fucking shit. I was supposed to be in court this morning.” Now I was going to be totally fucked by Matt and his bloodsucking lawyer.
“Well, you fucked that up. Want to tell me why you got so shitfaced last night, and what you’re doing here instead of in your palace in the sky?”
I retreated under the pillow again. “None of your business.”
“I called Liam, and he just said you decided to sleep here. So tell your little sister what you did to get yourself banished from the castle.”
I hated to admit the truth. It hurt so much. “I broke up with him.”
“You what?” she yelled at a million decibels.
The Advil hadn’t taken effect yet——if it ever would——and the jackhammer men told me how much they hated the yelling.
“Please, keep it down.”
“I’ll stop yelling when you tell me what happened.”
I didn’t know where to start, and some of it was fuzzy. “He’s leaving town.”
“Okay, that’s not great, but what’s the deal?”
“He promised his wife before she died that he’d become a doctor.”
“And?” she asked.
“He got into medical school in Baltimore.”
Vivienne put her hand on my shoulder. “What did he say about it?”
This was going to be the hard part for her to understand. “He said he wouldn’t go, and he’d stay with me.”
She shook me. “That’s great. Problem solved. Now you can go have wild make-up sex and be back to normal.”
“No,” I said. “It won’t work.”
Vivienne stood. “Bullshit. Make-up sex always works with guys. He said he’d stay here for you. It doesn’t get much better than that.”
“I can’t do that to him.”
