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I open my mouth, willing the right answer to come out, but no words do. I don’t know how else to say ‘no’. I don’t know how to make it clear that this is the last thing I want. An excuse comes out instead. “Oh, Dad, I’m working and there’s an emergency. I need to call you back…”
He’s still talking but I end the call anyway.
I’m so done.
I can’t keep having this conversation. Not when I’m not getting anywhere.
Why wouldanyonewant to marry a womanizer and drunkard? Rickie Flynn Junior isn’t just that. He’s known to be cruel as well. Plus, marrying Rickie means returning to Ireland, which is out of the question.
I left for a reason.
I sure as shit don’t want to go back.
“You have a plan,” I remind myself as I rise to my feet, ready to get back to work. “You’re going to prove your worth, and then…”
Well, then, hopefully, any talk of marrying some asshole will be long out the window. I just want to be here, living my own life, freely. I don’t care about all the mob drama in Ireland. I never wanted to marry as a pawn in the games of the different families to make bonds stronger.
I want to be my own person.
As I grab myself a much needed mug of coffee to give me a caffeine boost before I return to work, I let out a little chuckle, recalling the dream that flooded me a little while ago.
It’s not much of a surprise that Wilson Anderson was the man in my dream, even if the mind-blowing sex was a little out of left field. I’ve been thinking about him a lot recently, ever since I met him really, because he’s a big part of my plan.
Well, if I can get him on board, that is.
“Ah, there you are,” my co worker, Lily, calls out. “I was just coming to get you. The place is filling up again. You know how it is at this time of morning. Plus, I think I just overheard a guy asking for you personally.”
Is that Wilson?
I can’t imagine anyone else asking directly for me.
Uh oh, now I’m grinning like an idiot. I don’t want Lily to be suspicious.
“Oh right, well I’m coming. Just sipping my coffee first.”
Lily salutes me playfully before heading into her own clinic room, eager to help whoever needs her.
I take a deep sigh before I make my way out to the crowds. Honestly, so much happens in the night time, I can’t believe there aren’t more clinics like this around the city.
But my eyes are only seeking out one person.
If Wilson is here right now, then I might finally speak to him about my plan. We’ve been growing closer over time, and I think we have something of a friendship brewing between us now, so it might work.
It also may not, who knows.
I can’t see him anyway, so I don’t know who the hell was asking for me. Weird.
Just as I’m about to ask at reception who wanted me personally—if there was anyone at all, I don’t know now if Lily was mistaken—a crashing sound, like glass smashing, silences all of us. Everyone in the room stops what they are doing and turns to the source of the sound.
What the fuck?
As people start to sink down to the floor or raise their hands above their heads, it starts to click what’s happening here. This is danger; we’re in danger.
Fuck, this shit is serious.
There’s a man… with a gun.
A gun that’s being waved around the room like a maniac is wielding it.
