Meant To Be (The Destiny Series Book 1) by Karen Stivali

Author:Karen Stivali [Stivali, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

D: What are you baking anyway?

M: Brownies.

D: I’d give you all my fries in exchange for a brownie.

M: Forgot to order dessert?

D: Actually yes, I did, but it wouldn’t matter if I had, nothing compares to your brownies.

M: Are you trying to seduce me?

D: That depends. Is it working?

M: That depends, how good are the fries?

Daniel could not stop smiling. He was so down all day, and chatting with Marienne had lifted his spirits more than he could have hoped. He missed her so much he typed it.

D: I miss you.

But, although it was insanely accurate, he wasn’t sure he should say it. He backspaced and erased, then typed something else instead.

D: Hey, why did you think I was going to yell at you?

He waited and saw the message that said ‘Marienne is typing…’. It disappeared, but no response popped up. ‘Marienne is typing’ appeared a second time, then vanished, still no response. She was typing and erasing too.

D: You still here?

M: Yes.

D: Why did you think I’d yell?

M: Maybe yell wasn’t the right word.

D: Okay, there are lots of words, choose another.

M: Always the English professor.

D: ALWAYS stalling. I’m in no hurry, stall all you want, I’ll wait.

M: :P

D: Still waiting.

M: *sigh*

D: Waiting.

M: I was afraid you might think the problem was my fault.

D: WHAT? Why on earth would I think that?

Again he saw that she was typing and stopping, yet no responses came. Oh my God, don’t tell me someone suggested to her that she was to blame.

M: I don’t know.

D: Did the doctor say you had done something wrong?

M: No. He said this just happens sometimes.

Daniel hesitated, unsure how to ask for more information without upsetting her, and unsure he wanted to hear the answer.

D: Did someone else say it?

M: Not in so many words.

“Fuck,” Daniel said. Who the hell was giving her a hard time? He knew there was no way she’d have run home from the doctor and rung her mother, and that was the only person who seemed likely to say something so stupid and hurtful. He couldn’t think who she would have told, other than Frank. No, he wouldn’t possibly…

D: Someone obviously said something.

M: I probably overreacted.

D: That’s possible, it depends what the person said.

He was dying to know, but he didn’t want to push her too hard. He drummed his thumb against the laptop. Again it showed she was typing, then stopping. Please tell me who’s upsetting you.

M: I tried to call Frank when I left the doctor’s office, but he was in a meeting and couldn’t come to the phone. So I went online. By the time he got home I was pretty freaked out. When I told him there was a problem, I think I overwhelmed him with too much information.

D: And?

Daniel’s jaw clenched. What the hell did he say to her?

M: He asked “how did this happen?”

D: Did you tell him that the doctor told you it just happens?

M: Daniel, you know Frank. In his mind nothing “just happens”, someone has to be to blame.

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