by Eden Rose
Grant
This is not happening. Put simply, this is not happening.
“What are you doing?” I rub my hand down my jaw to rub out the sting of her slap.
She glares at me. “You don’t get to know! Grant- you- you-”
I wrap my arms around her and hold on. “No, please let me explain! I didn’t tell you about the baby because I had to make sure that it was mine.”
Grimacing, she wiggles out of my grab and stomps over to Steve who is laying on her bed. “No, you don’t get to do that. You didn’t tell me on purpose! We were supposed to be together and you kept something important from me.... I can’t even look at you!”
I watch as she clips a leash to Steve and grabs her bag. “Where are you going?” Is Chloe really leaving?
“Why don’t you go and talk to Christine! Isn’t this when you normally like to fuck her? After I leave. Yeah…” There is a sick grin on her face and she pulls Steve off the bed. Walking closer to me, she aligns her body to mine. “Another thing that you didn’t tell me. So glad that you really loved me in order to tell me everything.”
My body is rigid as she pushes past me. “Precious-”
The front door slams and I can feel how she’s already gone. I’ve lost her.
Chloe
I run down the stairs with Steve and run to my car. I shove everything into my car and then get myself in before I harden my heart. I’m an agent! I don’t need to be upset.
Pushing the key into the ignition, I dial up the director to request a couple of days off. It’s been a long time since I have done something like that, and I don’t see why I couldn’t do it.
Before I hit CALL, my driver’s side door is flung open. There is a hot steaming man staring at me through the opening. “You’re just going to leave? Why am I not surprised! When the going gets fucking tough, you leave! You left before because we slept together and now you’re leaving again for some bull shit reasoning!”
“It’s not bull shit!” I yell back and the words bounce off the walls in the garage. “You lied to me!”
I try to close the door, but he has his hand on it. Briefly, I thought about slamming the door on his hand. I decided against it since it would be so fucking mean.
“No, I didn’t lie. You never asked about Christine and you fucked Howard. How many people did you fuck after me? I heard all about you at the agency…”
“Fuck you!” I climb out of my car and stand toe to toe with him. “You don’t know anything about me or what I’ve been through!”
His chest puffs up and he stares down at me. “You’re right! That’s because the only way I got information was to go through Christine. You are the one that left me! God damn it, Chloe. I told you I loved you and now you are just running away when shit gets real. This is real life.”
I point my finger into his stomach and push it in. “Was that before or after she sucked your dick? Did you tell Kayla that you guys were going to be a family? Did you promise to marry her and leave your silly little thing back in Denver? Did you? No, wait! You thought you could have both, didn’t you! I bet you did.”
I’m so mad right now, my jaw is clenched and I feel the urge to smack someone. Steve’s tucked in the corner of the passenger seat and looks afraid when I look at him through my peripheral vision.
“I can’t believe you would think that! Chloe, I have known you for years-”
“Did you really give me all of you? Or were you just hiding? The Grant I knew wouldn’t keep a family hidden from me! He would have told me. I don’t give a fuck that you had sex with other women, I don’t give a flying fuck if you knocked up bitches. I do care if you don’t tell me these things.”
“I should have known better. I should have known that you would run. Have a nice life, Chloe!”
I watched in horror as he walked past me and into the building. “Just so you know, when you over-analyze this in your head- you are the one that fucked everything up,” he says calmly before he enters the building.
What the fuck?
I climb back in my car and Steve crawls over the center console to sit on my lap. I pet his head and control my breathing. “Do you think I did the right thing?” I ask him.
Well, it’s obvious that my dog isn’t going to answer me. I dial the director’s number and start my car. I need out.
It’s when I get on the road, the director answers. “Delacruz.”
“Director, I need some time off…” I fight back tears as I think about what just happened. We were happy, weren’t we?
“Can’t allow you to do that. I need you for an undercover mission.”
I continue to drive down the road as I come up with what to say to get out of it. “Please-”
“Delacruz, Barry is leading us into the bath house and I need you there.”
“What do you want me to do?” I ask quietly. I can’t imagine what Barry did in order to sign up for this.
He lets out a deep breath. “You’re going undercover as a madam.”
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