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"And don't you dare come back! You are dead to me!" Evans yells.
As I turn to leave, I hear Janet talking.
"Evan! Think of Jenna. If she truly loves him, this reaction is only going to alienate her!" Janet cries.
My heart breaks, and I know I won't be the reason they lose Jenna. It will take some time for them to calm down, but I'll give them all the time they need.
I text Jenna on the way out to my car.
Heading home.
How did it go?
Not good. Talk when I get home.
I need the time between here and there to figure out how I'm feeling and what I want to say to her. Even though I want to be honest, the last thing I want is to hurt her, too.
As I drive home, my mind races with a million thoughts. Did I make the right decision? Should I have come clean sooner? I know Jenna and I have been through a lot together, but this is beyond anything we've faced before. How can I ever make things right?
Once I pull into the driveway, I take a deep breath, trying to calm my nerves. Parking the truck, I slowly make my way towards the house, attempting to prepare myself for what's to come. Though I know there's no way around it, I’m going to have to face the music.
The door swings open and Jenna's face lights up with a smile. But it quickly fades when she sees me.
"Oh my god he hit you?!" She takes my hand and leads me right into the kitchen.
"Hit makes it sound gentler than it actually was," I grumble and sit in the chair she points to.
"Tell me what happened. Start at the beginning." She says as she walks into the kitchen, pulling the first aid kit from the cabinet by the door. I get hurt a lot on the ranch, and since I always come in the back door, I learned early on to keep one nearby. She grabs some paper towels and a bowl of water before she comes back over to me.
When she pulls up a chair to sit next to me, I put her onto my lap. Now that she’s straddling me, she takes a paper towel and starts dabbing around the area where her father hit me.
Without wasting any more time, I relate what happened. "I went in, and we talked about the ranch for a few, but I just decided to dive right in, rip off the Band-Aid, so to speak." I flinch when she hits a tender spot.
The water in the bowl is a slightly pink color. I hadn't realized I was bleeding. Next, she pulls out the antibiotic cream and gets to work.
"I told him I was in love with you," I squeeze her hips to emphasize my point." He turned a shade of red I've never seen on him before. Not even when your brothers' took his new truck for a joy ride the night he bought it and totaled it."
"Oh! That is the maddest I've ever seen him. I'm sorry he got that way with you. At the very least, I should have gone. I doubt he'd have punched you with me there."
"It's okay, sweetheart. I deserved it. Honestly, he could have hit me more than once, and I wouldn't have stopped him."
Jenna places a Band-Aid over the skin where Evan punched me and then gently cups my face.
"You don't deserve it. All you did was fall in love, and you treat me better than any guy I've dated. You are exactly what any father would want for their daughter. He will come around and see it, or he doesn't have to be part of my life. That is on him," she shrugs casually.
"I refuse to get between you and your family..."
"You think I want anything to do with whoever did this to the man I love?" she asks, brushing her finger gently over the area she just fixed up.
I open my mouth to speak but get stopped by her phone ringing. She picks it up from the table and freezes.
"It's my dad," she says in a low, shaky voice.
Chapter 18
Jenna
Seeingmydad'snameon my phone, I freeze. I don't want to answer it, and Josh seems to understand that.
