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And then the inevitable hit to my chest comes. The strength with which that pain comes nearly knocks me off my feet, but I can’t help myself when my hand reaches over to my sternum and clutches over it as if that will somehow help.
As if that ever helped…
Vassar immediately reacts to her presence, running up and kneeling next to her. “Hey, Angel. I’m so sorry we woke you up. Go back to bed. I’ll be there in a moment.”
Angel…She is the angel he was referring to when I heard him before. And she might as well have been one for all thatinnocence and purity in her sweet, brown eyes. Just like her dad’s.
“Daddy, who is that?” She points to my frozen presence, but I can’t move or breathe or say one word. I can only hurt.
When will it stop hurting?
Suddenly the little girl’s eyes widen, and she leans into her dad. “Is that a real-life mermaid?” she whisper-shouts into his ear. “Daddy, can I go touch her?”
Touch me?
Oh no.No, no, no, no, no!
That question jerks me from my stupor, I back away, stumbling on my feet and tripping over nothing before ripping the door behind me wide open and running as fast as my heels can take me.
I run down the steps, not noticing where I am stepping. I run out of the building, oblivious to all the surroundings, bumping into a passing by pedestrian. I jump into the backseat of my car, and this time, I look straight into Henry’s eyes while his go from confused to downright terrified.
“Kira? Are you alright?” my driver asks me, but I can’t answer. I think I nod, or maybe I shake my head, or maybe I am doing both at the same time because I have left this body for the time being.
I left it and landed right smack into my past…
“Home. Take me home,” is all I say, and he immediately takes off.
My body is aching, my muscles are sore, my blood is cold, and my heart cries out the old tune for the first time in twelve years. I squeeze my eyes shut, willing the old memories to go back to the damn past they came from.
No, I am begging them to leave me alone. Go back to the ocean where I left you. I set you free.
Please, do the same for me…
My head falls to the cold glass, the sting of which helps me to get my bearings together as the pain in my chest lets go bit by bit.
He has a child. Vassar has a beautiful little girl, and here I am, trying to sabotage his life to satisfy my own cravings.
Maybe I am not as heartless as I wish I’d be. Because right about now I am feeling a whole lot, and those feelings make me dig up my phone and dial my brother.
The phone only rings twice before his gruff voice fills the space, and I realize too late that I woke him up. “What’s wrong?” is my brother’s greeting.
“I fucked up.” I hear the sheets ruffle and feet shuffling on the floor.
“Talk.”
“He has a kid.”
“Fuck.”
“Yeah.” My voice betrays me, cracking on that one-word answer. “I assume you saw the news and now the game has gone too far. I can’t exactly ‘break up’ with him. My image will be destroyed, and Steven will have a fucking field day.”
“Screw that idiot. My plan to deal with him is still very much an option.”
“Jules,” I exhale heavily.
“I only care about you, Kira, and right now, it sounds like you went down the one road you never wanted to take.”
“No, you know I didn’t.”
