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amount as I try to will my heart rate to drop back down, it’s heating so hard in my chest that I feel like Em about to have a
Mlack
at to go into cardiac arrest.
I dropped the kids at school and grabbed a coffer on the way, all the while about to gol
It’s fine, he doesn’t know anything, and komledge is power. While he doesn’t know anything we are safe.
He will though
One day soon I’m
going to be and
Maybe it’s better if he does fad out maybe then can Emally forgive myself for it and move on
going to have to tell him, in fact I think I already kind of admitted it. I close my eyes, overwhelmed with fear. I know how pental he dawn it. I cant believe Tu livint this lin; this was never whod was
With one last look in my tear
rearview mirror, I drag myself into work.
“Good morning, Ruth Isayas I walk through the front doors.
“Good morning. Aria.” She looks up at me over the top of her glasses. Everything all right? You look frazzled.”
Tm great.” I be with a smile as I walk
as I walk through the office. “Everything is just great”
Im a disaster, Ruth, and my children are the spawn of the devil Inerally,
Why wouldn’t I have just politely declined? What on earth was thinking that I was going to achieve by screaming down the phone? All I’ve done is made him angry, and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that Gabriel Ferrara when angry is a catastrophic forte.
Dumb dumb, dumb-
1get a vision of Gabriel sitting at his desk in New York and I can feel his rage from here. Complete with the red sky, the lightning, the earth splitting in two and swallowing me whole in true horror movie fashion.
1nwardly kick mysli Shn.
Why did I curse and carry on like an immature child on the phone?
Damn it, I need to be smarter about this
Something about that man brings out the absolute worst in n
Ugh. So stupid.
I storm into my office and dump my briefcase on my desk. Now, to top off my morning from hell, I have to organize home loans all day.
tigh, I hate my job.
I work at a bank as a loan manager, it’s a good position, great pay with hours that I can work around the kids. I should be grateful for the opportunity,
11am-it’s jest. Mindless, boring, and crappy working out how much debt people can go into all day long.
As much as I hate to admit it, I muss the exotic days in New York of wearing such heels and tight pencil skirts to work and staying back and having drinks with my work friends in rod bars. I get a’vision of back then and Gabriel in his black briefs making me coffee every morning while I went through his day
Stop it.
“Good morning.” Mervin calls as he walks past my office.
“Morning, Mery.” I reply as I open up my computer.
He sticks his head back around my door. “Do you want to buy some brownie cookes?”
Adios!
My Playboy Hubby. I’m DONE Being Your Submisive Wife!
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Ugh
“I guess.” I grab my purse. “How many fundraisers do you do exactly? I swear I need to loan myself some cash just to support your kids‘ sporting activities”
“I know, right, I’m sick of selling this shit too.” He walks in my office and pats the bot of cookies on my desk
I pass him over ten dollars. “You know I may these things from you with the hill intent of taking them home and sharing them and then, next thing you know, I’ve eaten the lot of them.”
vry and looks through his wallet for change.
Same “He takes the money
I scrunch my nose as a wall of something bad warrounds me, and I look around. “What is that god awful smell?” 1 don’t know?” He looks around.
“Oh it’s disgusting” wince.
“The bell is it?” He shrugs and looks on the bottom of his shoe, “Hopefully my office doesn’t smell.” He disappears down the hall.
“Ruth,“call “Do you know what that smell is?
“Not really,” she calls, disinterested. I smelled it before when I walked in the door, though.” Fuck’s sake.
“Oh pack, its putrid in my office, I think there must be a dead rat in the ceiling or something, Merv calls down the hall.
Eww
This day just keeps getting better..
4p.m.
An email po
up on my screen,
Your next appointment is here
Mr. Don Johnston
Don Johnston, what kind of name is that? I glance at my watch, I hate having appointments with new clients this late in the day. I reply to Ruth.
Send him in please
I close down my emad and take a up of my water and stand and open the door.
Gabriel Ferrara is striding down the corridor toward me, and my eyes widen in horror
“Hello, Miss Whitmore.” He speers as he walks past me into my office
Take appointment
Diabolical
I glance around my office f
for an escape route before closing the door.
He’s towering above me, wearing a perfectly fitted suit; his black hair has a bit of a curl to it and his animosity is encapsulating the room, making everything else feel so small and insignificant.
“What are you doing here?” I ask
He sat down at my desk. “You told me to make an appointment.” He points to my chair. “Sit.”
I drop
uma my chan, my nervous heart hammering “What do you want?”
He sits back and crosses his legs, arrogance personified, and bis dark eyes hold mine. “I would like to know a little bit about you.”
I shrug as fact casual. “There’s nothing to know.”
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Tut the bullshit. Aris “he fireshark Doyen
I swallow the bucket
amy eyes bold his. T’imaginé him flipping the dede uit meting the windari ce some
Take what
To Not Play With Me
His jaw ties in anger. “Answer. The Tucking Question
Yeswhat?
“Tea “I try to say the words out loud, but my
“You what?” he spits starily.
y day mouth betrays me, I can’t even forma sentence.
“Yes. You are their biological father. I say quietly.
in my throat. “Aan diep ar
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