Kidnapped by My Best Friend's Dad: An Age Gap, Curvy Girl, Best Friend’s Dad Romance by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-16T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Emma

As soon as we enter the house, Rosa charges through the foyer straight to her mother’s shrine. I yell and try to stop her, knowing she’ll regret whatever she’s about to do, but then she throws herself into the destruction. With a scream, she kicks the leg of the supporting unit. It must hurt like heck, but she doesn’t show any sign of it. She does it again and then starts flinging the thankfully unlit candles everywhere. She smashes the glass in the picture frame, then throws it across the room.

“Rosa, you’re bleeding.”

I move to her quickly, my hands raised to calm her down. She’s a storm, a human tsunami, and I can tell calming down is the last thing she wants to do, let alone can do. She shakes her head quickly, her knuckles dripping crimson.

“Every conversation we’ve ever had…”

Her body shudders in time with her voice. I made a mistake in the car, reading her shellshocked quiet as incoming calm. She waited until we arrived home to let it all out and unleash the rage trapped inside.

“Every time we visited her grave… Do you know how many times we stood here, hugging, talking about Mom? Or just watching the flames flicker in her picture frame? Each moment was special.”

“They can still be special,” I murmur.

Eddie lingers nearby. Looking over my shoulder, I see him frowning as if unsure of what to do.

“It’s fine,” I tell him.

“Yeah, Eddie, we’re fine,” Rosa says in a cutting tone. “My whole life’s a lie. Everything I ever believed is bullshit, but we’re fine, okay?”

“You should let me bandage your hand, miss.”

Rosa laughs in an unhinged way. I can’t blame her, and yet, even now, my soul is singing, my heart throbbing. He never wanted anybody else, only me.

“You’re wrong,” Rosa says. “Every moment is ruined.”

“It doesn’t have to be,” I reply. “What he did, I know it’s wrong. Lying is, but he did it for you. He did it so you could have something special, a memory of your mom that would always stay with you and mean something. For years, he pretended to love a woman he didn’t. For you.”

Rosa approaches slowly. Thankfully, the bleeding on her knuckles has stopped, but they’re still red.

“Stop defending him. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

She’s got a point. The last thing I should do as her best friend is stand up for her dad. However, there’s another aspect to me, one that feels far more important. I’m the future wife, the future mother, his.

“You can’t hate your dad forever,” I say.

“Says who?” Rosa’s lips tremble, tears glittering in her eyes. “Maybe I can. Maybe I can hate him for the rest of my life, and anyway, it hasn’t even been an hour yet. What about that, Emma? Am I allowed an hour?”

“I just want you to remember that, no matter what, your dad still loves you.”

“Why are you talking about this like you know?” she snaps. “You don’t know anything about Dad or why he does the things he does.

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