What if that is for him? No. After all, it’s not. He’s not a slut. Effectively, at the very least, I don’t suppose he’s. As Tuxedo wraps himself round my legs, I notice I’m spiraling uncontrolled.

Selecting up my telephone, I’m shaking so laborious, I can’t dial the numbers. Sitting down on the sofa, I sniffle and have a look at my cat, who’s trying again at me. Taking a deep breath, I depend to twenty.

“You actually ought to have referred to as the police.” I search for and see one in all my bodily therapists standing in my front room. Josh is bloody, however it may possibly’t be from the glass.

“What are you doing right here?”

He cackles manically, and I stand up from the sofa. “To warn you about your boyfriend. He’s insane.”

“And also you aren’t?”

I like the concept of Aaron being my boyfriend, however I’ve a sense we’re a lot greater than that. Hitting the telephone button behind my again, I slip the telephone into my pocket.

“You don’t get to exit with him and flaunt him in entrance of me, Julie. It’s simply not good.”

“What are you speaking about? I’ve by no means agreed to exit with you, and I actually would by no means date an worker.”

He lunges for me and I yelp, leaping out of the best way. “You led me on to consider you wished me. All these occasions we’d go to lunch and whatnot.”

“I invited everybody.” I can hear the panic in my voice as I attain for the door and switch the knob.

CHAPTER THIRTY

Lennox is fucking superior. The child is aware of all my stats and watches each transfer I make. We’re speaking about how the soccer staff right here wants assist and that he thinks I’m going to be a fantastic coach. God, the best way he makes me really feel is nearly as addicting as my want for Julie.

With dinner down, the ice cream store purchased out, and our stomachs manner too full, we head right down to the bookstore.

“Lennox, your stuff about sports activities. Are you going out for any of the junior groups this yr?”

“I don’t know. Mother is so busy; I don’t wish to add to her stress.” He licks his final spoonful of ice cream, and it jogs my memory a lot of myself. He doesn’t wish to make his mother’s life more durable. In the identical manner, I didn’t wish to after mother misplaced it when Bryson left for the army.

“Don’t fear an excessive amount of, Len. You’re your mom’s world. It’s going to be alright.”

My telephone rings, and I choose it up, “Hey?”

“You don’t get to exit with him and flaunt him in entrance of me, Julie. It’s simply not good.”

I do know that voice. Fuck. The goddamn therapist that I beat the shit out of determined to go to Julie. Has he been stalking my lady? That’s my job. One I clearly have to take again up if I’m going to maintain her protected.

“Lennox, we have to head towards the home.”

He sizes me up and should see the anger on my face to comprehend that now isn’t the time to be fucking round. “You bought it.”

That’s all he says earlier than he hyperlinks our fingers collectively and strikes with me.

“Don’t.” Julie’s voice is strained as she pleads with him. The bastard higher not contact her.

“Oh, I’m going to be doing much more to you. You selected the fallacious man, you silly cunt.”

My anger soars to new heights, and my imaginative and prescient goes black for a second. “Dad, you alright?”

Each time I hear him name me Dad, my coronary heart scatters and rearranges itself. I wish to relish the sensation of him being glad and me lastly attending to be with him. However the phrases coming from my telephone are going to drive me to do one thing I haven’t accomplished in a very long time. Kill.

I’ll kill that son of a bitch the second I see him. As I get to the store that Kaylee advised me to satisfy her at, I go searching. She’s not due for one more twenty minutes, however she’s already right here. Thank God. I don’t suppose I may deal with ready on her.

“Is…” Kaylee blanches when she sees my face, and Bryson comes across the nook.

“No. Nothing is alright. Take Lennox again to your home. I’m going to get an Uber.”

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