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All he’d planned to do tonight was have a fucking sandwich and chips and watch some TV.
Instead he got the woman he’d been dreaming about for years back in his messy bed and she stormed out of his life as fast as she blew in.
When he went back to the front door to lock it for the night, he saw her jacket still on the railing where she’d tossed it. She was in such a hurry to get away from him he was surprised she didn’t walk out barefoot.
He picked her jacket up and put it to his nose to inhale her scent. He hoped it’d be on his sheets but most likely it wouldn’t.
Gabe set the jacket back on the railing and then turned and put his fist through the wall.
“Fuck!” he yelled.
He was shaking his hand off and immediately saw his knuckles turn red with a bit of blood on them.
He could make a fist and flex his fingers at least.
Marching back to the kitchen, he grabbed an ice pack and wrapped a towel around it to keep it in place and then put together the sandwich he’d planned on making.
An hour went by and he wanted to reach out to Elise and see how she was doing.
He couldn’t. He had to give her time and space.
She came to him before, he could only hope she did it again.
He refused to give up when they were just getting started.
He just hoped it wasn’t more than a decade before they could talk again.
16
SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE
“What are you in a mood about?” Elise’s father asked her the next day.
“Nothing,” she said.
“Is it your mother?”
“No,” she said. She wasn’t lifting her eyes from her computer. If she looked at her father he might know she spent the night crying and cursing not just her mother but herself.
She was an adult and had no one to blame but herself for her actions.
“Royce told me about your mother’s call yesterday.”
“She’s never going to change,” she said.
“No,” her father said. “And the sooner you accept that the better it will be.”
“What does that mean?” She looked up at him and he moved and shut the door to her office.
“It means that you keep hoping for something that isn’t going to happen. She’s not going to change. She’s not going to apologize for her actions. She doesn’t think she does anything wrong. Once you accept none of that will ever change then your dealings with her won’t work you up so much.”
Now she wished her father had been here to say these words to her yesterday. It might have stopped her from making such a fool out of herself.
She pretty much threw herself at Gabe...again.
He even said that.
No. He told her not to do it again. Not to leave on him.
