Cole by Brittany Dreams

Author:Brittany Dreams [Dreams, Brittany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Laila

My phone buzzed again on the nightstand. That was the fifth time now.

It was Brad.

I didn’t know why he was calling and I didn’t want to.

I didn’t want to talk to anybody else today.

Peter went to bed two hours ago and from then I’d been here sitting in my room crying. Dr. Maylor told me in our sessions that sometimes you had to just cry off the hurt and emotions that wore you down. It didn’t mean you were weak. It was a way of getting tension out of the soul. I believed her. The problem was I didn’t know what I should do about the pain in my soul.

That was the part that got me. It always did.

Pain.

Hearing the truth tonight was something I had waited to hear for a long time, even though I’d created my own truths on what happened to Cole and me.

Hearing it tonight finally gave me closure. At the same time it enraged me.

Cole forgot that I knew him and he wouldn’t have just came to the conclusion that Brad was only being my big brother and trying to protect me. I knew there was more rawness than that because I knew what Brad was like.

I was trying not to be angry with him. I agreed that he was looking out for me and it was true that he wouldn’t allow anyone to take advantage of me no matter who it was. Nevertheless, it didn’t make it right.

I was willing to bet that without his intervention Cole and I may have had a different story. Sure, I would have been crushed to hear about his ex and her pregnancy, but then we would have probably worked it out. The thing about it was I didn’t know. Nobody knew.

Thinking about it like that made me feel bad because if I never got involved with Porter I wouldn’t have Peter, who I loved like nothing else.

Despite that, I couldn’t help but wonder what could have been. What mistakes could have been avoided. And while I knew Cole wouldn’t have really known the specifics of my divorce, I thought Brad would have said something more to him.

He was the first person I called when I found Porter cheating. I didn’t even call Piper until a few days later. I called Brad and we spoke every day. He flew out to LA and was mad that it happened but he did nothing, didn’t even have words with Porter—who, at the time, was trying to get me back. Brad shocked me when he asked if maybe we could work it out. Then it hit me as he said he didn’t want to make things worse because at the time Porter was on the board of governors, who funded some of the research programs at Remington’s.

It crossed my mind that he didn’t want to make himself look bad by going after a powerful man like that. Someone who could have him fired if he wanted to. I never realized the power my husband had until then.

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