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“I… I was the one who spoke to your mom,” she said. “I told her what you’d been up to.”
The floor collapsed beneath my feet.
“You?” I said. “But how? You didn’t even know what my plan was.”
“No,” she said. “But I knew Zyod would know. So, I paid him a visit. I convinced him to tell me everything.”
Zyod told her everything? That could only mean one thing…
“He wouldn’t have told you everything, not unless you gave him something,” I said.
“Okay, so when I said I haven’t been with anyone else since I met you, that wasn’t completely true,” she said.
I snorted half in surprise, half in total non-surprise.
“You know he has a girlfriend?” I said.
Ettana shrugged.
“That’s his decision to make,” she said. “I needed information and I know how to get it. Men are very, very simple.”
It was all I needed to hear.
It was all I needed to know.
She got the information and then passed it on to my mom.
It was her fault Vicky left.
“Please don’t hate me,” Ettana said. “I did it for us. I thought… I don’t know what I thought…”
“I’m not mad at you,” I said. “But you know, nothing can ever happen between us. I’m already in love with someone else.”
And there it was. The words I struggled to admit to myself this whole time.
I loved Vicky.
There wasn’t a shred of doubt or regret about it. I loved her with every fiber of my being. I loved her even now, after she left me. And even if she refused to stay with me, I would carry on loving her forever.
“Is it too late to get her back?” Ettana said.
“She’s already on a ship heading to her homeworld,” I said.
“Is it far away?”
“Very.”
“I’m sorry. But you know, it’s never really over. Not even when it is. I never accepted we were just friends but I tried to keep you anyway.”
“What are you saying?”
“I’m saying you should go to her. Maybe there’s a chance she hasn’t left yet. Or maybe she’s on that ship right now, wondering where you are, and whether or not you’re going to run after her. I know I would be.”
Vicky wasn’t like Ettana. Would she think the same way? Would she forgive me for all the lies I told? Would she accept me for who I truly am? Even penniless and without my stake in the company?
I knew deep in my gut, money was never the issue with her. Even if she didn’t want to see me ever again, the least I could do was let her know how much I loved her.
I had to tell her. My life and my love were in her hands. It was up to her whether or not she gave us another chance.
