“Why are you going through my shit?” he yelled back. Why was he so pissed about me finding it? It was me who had the right to be angry.
“It’s my shit!” I screamed back at him. “Now tell me what you are doing with it!”
“I’m not telling you a fucking thing, I trust you to stay in my house and you do this? I would never invade your privacy like that Dallas,” he said trying to regain his composure and failing miserably.
“What the fuck are you talking about? I damn sure didn’t go digging for it! It practically fell into my lap!” I was confused. He had placed my suitcase right next to it. I figured he wanted me to find it, and if he didn’t, maybe he should have been a little more careful.
“You’re a fucking liar,” he said to me, sounding like he was trying to convince himself more than he was me. I stumbled back at his comment as if he had slapped me.
“I can’t believe you just said that,” I said barely audible.
“Get out of my house,” he said with a coldness in his voice that I had never heard. I stood standing there with my heart broken in a million pieces. I didn’t care why he had the photos. I didn’t care that the history of my life was scattered all over the floor of his closet. All that mattered to me at that moment was the fact that he no longer wanted me. I wanted to beg him to forgive me. I wanted to tell him that I was not lying and to please believe me. My heart might have been broken beyond compare, but my pride was still intact.
I knew this was the end for us. I knew that things would never go back to the way they were. Luke had shown his true colors and what had started out as a one night stand between us had turned into a nightmare. I would leave and he would never see me cry.
I grabbed my suitcase off the floor, leaving the box behind. I didn’t even want to look at it. I made it to the kitchen, still hoping for him to call my name, but he never did. Grabbing my keys and my cell phone off the counter, I walked out of his house and shut the door behind me. I was losing the greatest thing I never had.
Chapter 24
I was on the highway before the first tear fell, and then like a tsunami, they overtook me soaking my shirt and blurring my vision. The sobs were so strong I could barely breathe. I was confused and hurt and I had no idea what the fuck was going on. I screamed at the windshield and banged my fist on the steering wheel, but nothing seemed to help. He had kicked me out of his house-out of his life, yet he held a box full of information about me that he gathered long before we were together. Why did he have it? What could he possibly gain by having it?
My phone rang interrupting my thoughts and I saw it was Red. I answered immediately planning to cuss her for lying to me, but instead I sobbed in her ear.
“Dallas, just calm down and tell me what happened,” she said soothingly. I felt a little better just at the sound of her voice. How did she do that?
“D-did you talk to L-Luke?” I stammered between sobs.
“Yes, all he said was he found you going through his stuff and told you to leave.”
“I-I didn’t go through his s-stuff Red I swear! I w-was just looking for my suitcase and th-there was a box sitting beside it with my name on it. I thought it w-was my paperwork I took t-to Tupelo.” What the hell was Luke hiding that he was so worried about me finding anyway?
“So you didn’t go downstairs?” she asked surprised.
“What? No, I didn’t even know he had a downstairs,” I answered. So Luke did have a secret room.
“Ok, honey just calm down, this is just a misunderstanding that’s all.” Ok, now I was mad.
“A misunderstanding? He had pictures of me Red! And he had my personal information like my fucking social security number! If anyone deserves to be angry it’s me!”
“So you still don’t know, do you?” Red asked, but I could tell the question was not meant to be spoken out loud.
“Know what? Red I swear to God I will beat your fucking brains in if you don’t tell me what the fuck is going on right now!” I screamed. “If he wants to keep his club secrets that’s fine, but I’ll be damned if he keeps shit about me from me.”
“Dallas, I’m not at liberty to tell you anything. Mostly because I don’t know the whole story, but I promise I will tell Luke to call you,” she said defeated.