For Now by Kat Savage

Author:Kat Savage [Savage, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-03T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Jeff was standing in my doorway. Just standing there, staring at me as I stared back at him. What the fuck?

“You look surprised to see me,” he said, smiling.

His voice was fuzzy and my head was spinning. It seemed like everything was in slow motion. I hadn’t seen him in so long. I wasn’t even sure I believed he was standing here now. Maybe this was a dream I was going to wake up from. Twenty seconds or two hours passed and I said nothing.

“Are you going to invite me in?” he asked.

I kept standing here, mouth slightly open. I’m not even sure I was in possession of my own faculties as I pulled the door open wider, letting him walk past me to the couch.

Jeff looked around as he entered the living room and sat down. I stayed at the door staring out into the driveway and beyond. He was alone. I closed the door slowly, wondering if I should close it at all, or if I should keep it open, just in case.

“You’ve put yourself a nice little place together here, Lil.”

He always called me Lil and I always hated it. Hearing it now made me cringe. I stayed a steady distance away from him, standing guard of my own body, hands balled into fists at my sides. “What do you want?” I asked rigidly.

“Well, that’s not exactly a warm greeting,” he said.

“It wasn’t meant to be,” I snapped.

“Fine. Okay, I get that you might be a little mad at me. I get that you might even hate my guts. I guess that’s fair.”

“You guess? You fucking guess?” I growled.

“Okay, okay, Lil. I get it. I was terrible. I made some mistakes. But everything I did, I did with good intentions.” Jeff shrugged his shoulders like it was no big deal and I wanted to beat him with the lamp sitting next to him.

“Good intentions? Good intentions? No one does what you did to the woman they supposedly love with good intentions. No one,” I said.

“Fine,” he said.

His lack of concern or understanding was really starting to irritate me. There was no use trying to make him get it. “So what do you want, Jeff? Just get to it.”

“Well, I don’t really know. I just started driving, thinking I needed to come talk to you.”

“And you didn’t think to just call?”

“I didn’t think you’d take my call,” he said.

“You thought right. You’re lucky I even let you in.”

He sat in silence for a moment, shifting his weight. I kept my eyes on him. He looked thinner than the last time I saw him. He looked more worried, too. Less at ease than his usual confident self.

“The woman I left you for is pregnant,” he finally said.

“I know,” I said.

“You do?” he asked, confused.

“Yep.”

“I’m worried. I don’t know what to do. I’m worried about losing her. My little girl,” he said.

He didn’t even seem concerned about how I knew. I felt all the tiny hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.