Broken Compass by Hilary Anne

Author:Hilary Anne [Anne, Hilary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Miles

Everybody left the office a few hours ago. I’m caught up from skipping out yesterday afternoon and going through some personal things, mainly the divorce papers. Everything she’s requested is fairly reasonable and I don’t give a shit anymore. I want it to be over.

She wants to keep the terraced home? Fine.

She wants to keep the jewelry I’ve gifted her over the years? What would I want them back for anyway?

She wants to divide our savings in half? Works for me. She could take all of it, and I wouldn’t care. That money was saved for our future family and that never happened. I don’t need it now.

I pick up my favorite pen and sign my name on all of the lines marked with a sticky tab. I thought I’d feel different once my name was written next to hers. Maybe I was more ready than I thought I was to end that part of my life. I let out a slow breath.

My phone vibrates just as I toss the papers onto my desk amongst others, and I see Matthew’s name at the top of the screen. He never calls. He insists that anything said over a quick call can be handled via text. When he was passing along the message that Nicholas’s wife was in labor with the twins, he texted. When he was planning to go hunting, he texted. The last time he called me for anything was to inform me of an accident on the job.

He never calls unless it’s something bad.

Before the call goes to voicemail, I pick it up, trying to sound calm and collected when my gut is flipping in circles. “Hello?”

There’s silence on the other side, and I peel the phone away from my ear enough to see if he’s still on the line. He is.

A heavy exhale whooshes through the speaker.

“Hey, I have something to tell you.”

“Get on with it then.”

“First, let me say, we’re both okay. Nobody was hurt. Well, that’s not completely true, I do have a minor scratch, but it’s nothing a Band-Aid won’t fix. Besides that, it’s all good. It could have been much worse, really—”

“Matthew,” I bark. He’s starting to ramble without saying much at all.

“Right. Uh…” he pauses, and my worry is starting to escalate. What could be that bad that he’s having a hard time saying it? “I, uh, took Charlie to the Walsh site tonight after the crew had left. We timed it to be out of there before it got too dark. Walsh was there, being a bloody creep…”

The silence stretches between us. I pinch the bridge of my nose. Of course he didn’t fucking listen when I said she’s not to go there. I expected her to push the issue, but I at least thought Matthew would see reason and tell her no.

“That’s not all,” he says.

What else could there be besides Walsh getting his pervy eyes on Charlotte?

“I was, uh, down on the ground floor, making sure the crew tidied up before they left while Charlie was up a couple of floors finishing up a few more shots.

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