The Last Goodbye by Abby McCarthy

Author:Abby McCarthy [McCarthy, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abby McCarthy
Published: 2020-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

“Would I change anything?” He repeated.

“Yeah.”

He was quiet for a long moment. “Joining the Army made me into the man I am today. It changed my life and my mentality. It made me want to work hard, and it gave me skills I wouldn’t otherwise have. It kept me out of the life I was probably headed for. You know how Chicago is. I wouldn’t have been able to provide for you. So I wouldn’t change that.

“Maybe I should’ve talked with you more about when I was gone. I think you were falling apart when I left, and I thought you were good. I had this unmistakable feeling that we would always be good.”

I blew out a deep breath, feeling a tightness in my chest. This was a good conversation for us to have. I knew it. We were here, and it would give me closure, but the pain was real, and my feelings were still so tangled up in his, even after all of this time.

“I would’ve talked Trey into letting me confide in you about what was happening with him. I didn’t realize the resentments that you held onto from me being there with him. I promised him some things, and in hindsight, I should’ve told him I needed to confide in you. I should’ve had you to lean on and let you help shoulder my burden so you wouldn’t have felt like I chose to leave you.”

My curiosity about what really happened with Trey was again at the forefront of my mind. Trey had said something at the hospital, and I should’ve paid more attention to what he said. I was so lost in my overwhelming feelings that I didn’t question him, but maybe it was time I did that.

“I feel like somehow I failed to let you know how much I love you. That maybe if I’d been more open with you, things wouldn’t be the way they are.”

I swallowed, then swiped a small tear that leaked from the corner of my eye. “I knew,” I admitted.

“Not enough. Not if for a moment I was away from you had you believing I wasn’t thinking of you. Or didn’t wish to be anywhere else than beside you.”

He didn’t elaborate any more on if he would change anything with Alex. Maybe everything he told me in the car was all I was going to get. Would Alex have been dead? Truly? I wasn’t sure I could live with that, either.

“Why couldn’t you have gone to the cops or taken Alex out of town? You had other options.”

“You know Alex. You think he would’ve done anything else but go after Dante? He was pimping kids. He pimped Alex’s sister.”

I gasped, never having heard that before. “Alex has a sister?”

“Had. We were too fucking late.”

“Was it drugs?”

“He was a fucking pimp, of course drugs were there. These guys, they don’t mess around with pimping kids and stay clear of drugs. They’re scum. It was all of it. But Alex was clean.

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