Fate on the Ice : A Hockey Romance (North Carolina Fury) by Hayley James

Author:Hayley James [James, Hayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hayley Faiman Books, LLC
Published: 2024-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Sixteen

GRACE

My father sits across from me, his expression set in stone. Clearly, he is taking this much worse than I imagined he would. I didn’t think he would give a shit who I dated. And maybe he doesn’t. Maybe it’s more he’s upset that it’s me dating his player and not the other way around.

I decide that I can’t just let us continue this lunch in silence. I have to know what he’s thinking.

“Are you making that face because you’re upset that Otto is seeing me or because I’m seeing him?”

My father’s eyes widen, and then his brows snap together. “I don’t even know what the fuck you’re saying to me.”

Arching a brow, I watch him, waiting for him to continue speaking. But he doesn’t. He looks down at his food, moving it around the plate with his fork. A long silence passes between us.

“You know what I’m saying. So, what is it?” I ask. “You don’t want me to date him, or do you not want him to date me?”

He shakes his head a couple of times, then lifts his gaze to meet mine. “I didn’t realize when you moved down here that you would be trying to land a husband. These are not the men you date. They have huge futures ahead of them.”

The words he’s just said to me cut like a knife, but he doesn’t stop there. He continues to slice me open and cut me down with every single word. “Maybe you’re money and power hungry, just like your mother.”

“Fuck you,” I hiss. “You don’t even know me, and if you did, you wouldn’t say that to me.”

Gathering my purse from the chair next to me, I stand. I haven’t even eaten half my food, and I’m not hungry either. Instead, I am ready to get the hell out of here. Fuck him and whatever bullshit he rode in on.

“It shouldn’t surprise me that you’re just like her. She raised you, after all.”

I could stand in the middle of this restaurant and tell everyone around me exactly what kind of man is sitting across from me, making disgusting accusations. But I decide not to. Instead, I shake my head once, then clear my throat and lean forward.

“She raised me because you abandoned me. And I’m not even sure if you would call what she did raising.”

Straightening my back, I turn from him and walk out of the restaurant. He doesn’t come after me. He doesn’t call out to me. He doesn’t say or do shit because that’s my father. He pays my bills to shut me up and keep me away from him. I may have ruined all of that, though, by not only dating but falling in love with one of his men.

If my father stops paying my bills, that’s going to suck, but I’ll figure it out—I always do. With or without his help. With or without my mother. They’re both selfish in their own ways, and neither of them sees that. I am done with them both right now.

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