Last Call by Watson TL

Author:Watson, TL [Watson, TL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

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“Look who showed up for work finally,” I said to my ex when he strolled into my office mid-morning Monday.

I'd used my clearly joking tone, but he didn't smile. He didn't even look at me.

He tossed a stack of files onto my desk, still avoiding eye contact, while I grabbed a green tea from the mini-fridge. The middle finger of his left hand flicked the pad of his thumb. Crap, he was bracing to tell me something I didn't want to hear.

“What's going on?”

“Sit down, Gwennie.”

Jesus, it was serious. Not only did he use his sweet name for me, but he didn't use his lawyer speak. In fact, I hadn't heard that tired and resigned voice since we'd stayed up until four AM hashing out the pros and cons of staying married. In the end neither of us found very many pros, and the cons made it halfway down the second page.

“You're scaring me a little here.” I tucked my flared black skirt behind my knees and dropped into my chair. All of Tyler's weirdness from the previous week flooded in, especially the way he'd been secretly talking with his father. But he'd continually denied anything was wrong.

“Does Ty want to move in with you or something?” Breakfast churned in my stomach at the thought, but I wouldn't fight it.

Stephen actually snorted. “Give me a break.” And rolled his eyes. “Tyler's not the one moving in. Not everything between us is about the boys. At least not for me.”

But it had been for me, because I'd used them as a buffer the whole marriage. I'd known it early on; I just hadn't realized he'd figured it out, too.

He sat in the leather chair across the old dented oak desk, waiting for me to say something. Another favorite lawyer trick of his: let the opponent make the first mistake. Too many times in the marriage I'd fallen for it. I leaned back, crossed my arms, and raised a brow, shrugging.

“You've got nothing to say?” he asked.

“To what? You haven't said what this is really about.”

“Sure I have.”

“Okay.” I threw my arms in the air then let them hit the desk. “You're talking out of your ass here. What do you want to tell me?”

And there it was. He'd won the game, as usual. Push Gwen's buttons so she'd be the bad guy in the end. The worst part was I knew the game, fell for it every time, and still couldn't stop the seething from twisting and building once he'd lit the fuse. I ran my brain down everything he'd said since walking in, and stopped on the buzzer.

Tyler's not the one moving in.

“Oh. I see.” Amanda. They were moving in together. Okay, they'd been dating for a year. I liked her. So I wasn't sure why tears burned the back of my nose.

“You know, it'll just be easier with her mom and everything. Her place is so small.”

He started detailing how her mother needed extra care for the time being and the therapy equipment took up a ton of room and blah, blah, blah.

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