Fuck.
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I don’t knowhow to feel. I’m running, but my legs feel like lead. For as angry as I am, and for all the resentment I’ve harbored, those words felt like someone stabbed me in the heart with a dull blade.
Your father’s had a heart attack.
It doesn’t look good.
My father’s attorney told me my father was ill, but I sent him away.
Stuart told me that Tabitha was gunning for more inheritance, blackmailing my father with something that had him considering lifting the prenup.
I’ll strangle her.
I booked the first flight I could manage, but it left me with little time to make it to the airport. They’ve already called last call over the speaker, but I’m not giving up.
Not until that door is slammed in my face.
My feet pound against the floor, and my arms pump as I weave in and out of people in my way.
I don’t offer apologies, and I don’t look back. My mind is set on my father.
If he dies, our unfinished business will haunt me.
I have too many questions. Too many things I want to say.
He can’t die. Not before I can tell him that I forgive him.
That it was never about her, but the sting of my father choosing her over me when I needed him most.
Thankfully, I make it just as the attendant is closing the door. She lets me in, seating me in my first-class chair.
“Can I get you anything, sir?”
“Double scotch on the rocks, please.”
I need something that reminds me of him.
A memory to hold.
I check my phone once before we take off, and I find that I have no calls and no texts.
What was I expecting?
The things I’d said to Raven are unforgivable.
She can’t understand the trust issues I have due to my past.
It wasn’t fair because I know she’s nothing like Tabitha.
At some point along the way, I’ve fallen for her. I don’t know when or how, but I did.
It’s been a whirlwind, and for someone who doesn’t believe in love at first sight, I’m starting to think that’s exactly what I experienced the moment my eyes found Raven across the room at Silver.
But I ruined that with my toxic words.
I tarnished everything we could’ve had by allowing Tabitha’s venom to flow through me. To make a home in my veins and turn me cold and incapable of love.