It is the last rehearsal for the wedding of Richard and Paige. I would like to be anywhere but here.
- Also we missed the following week and Sunday lunch. Want to tell me what's going on?
- I've been busy.
I do not need to tell her what happened, Liam must have told in detail. Incidentally, this refuses to talk to me.
Shame for everything I did to stop me face my parents, my brothers, and see in their eyes the failure of man I have become. Worse than that, the child that they are unaware.
So I decided to spend a few days in the field, alone.
- Busy for your family?
I walk away, tense. I'm sick of fights and disagreements. Above all, I'm tired of hurting the people I love.
- The girls miss you.
- Can we talk about this later?
- You will close again, Adam? - The tone hurt is visible in his eyes, as in the tone of his voice - the old Adam back?
He never went away, dear. He was just hidden while the other played at being happy. I wanted to tell her, but I kept silent.
- Please Katty ...
Our conversation is interrupted by cries of Paige, soon settles down with the arrival of Richard. But Paige and Paige, soon found another target for their daydreams. If Nicole and Liam.
- I do not understand you and Liam - Katty back grumbling - They are the most beautiful, intelligent and special men I know. Why do so much shit in relation to relationships?
- It's something I would like to know.
I seem sarcastic, but, at bottom, it is a question I always ask myself.
-. No, really. Liam groom that bitch and I do not know why - she takes a deep breath before continuing - And you lost that wonderful girl, Adam. She loved you so much.
Wonder. I really need my sister play in my face that I am the most responsible for having removed the woman of my life.
- I had lunch with her last week - to her in front of me, and his gaze is angry at me - And you know what? Although she preferred to change the subject, it was impossible not to notice how much still loves you. I needed to see how her eyes lit up when he spoke of you.
- She'll learn to let love - the words come out as hot iron of my mouth.
- Is that you? You will be able to forget it?
But that girl from hell! Of course not. I will never forget my Charmosa. I just need to learn to deal with the pain that causes the distance. However, every day that passes, it becomes more difficult.
I walk away from Katty, hunting fleeing hunter. She will not leave me alone until I promise to do something to change my life.
And I promised Penelope that would follow her in peace. The noblest gesture I ever had, and that ironically lock me in the deepest pit of hell. But as I have sweet memories of her with me, I am able to survive.
- Sorry I'm late, Paige. But I have bad news. Nicole had to go to Italy on business. I think it will not come to your wedding.
Liam know like the back of my hand. He is lying. Why I do not know, but something tells me that this time, Nicole has done something serious.
- Does not matter - Paige speaks with feigned calm because his glare scare most of the men safe - Penelope will pair with you.
A light went on in my head. All my senses are on alert.
Penelope and Liam?
- Penelope? - I ask exalted.
I see Liam. His smile says a lot of things. Yes. He will use it to hit me.
Son of a bitch.
- You better Katty pair with Liam, and I make par with Penelope - suggest quickly.
Why the fuck I had done this, I can not explain. It was an automatic reaction. Liam is cute, funny, intelligent, and I think very soon will be single. Any woman would fall for it. Any woman but her. Obviously this is an insane thought, selfish and completely meaningless. If I could wish someone taking my place in the heart of Penelope, Liam would be the perfect choice. But I can not. It's hard to imagine her with another. Liam would be my end.
- Why this now? - Asks Paige.
Because I'm jealous of any man who spends more than five minutes beside her, even though he was my brother. Because it would be torture for me to have to see them together all night and have to stay away. Or perhaps be a jerk to be all I can be.
I'm about to throw it in her when Jenny comes to my rescue.
- Adam is right. Penelope know Adam better than Liam. I think she will be more comfortable, since today is the last test, and she did not participate in any.
I do not understand the reasons Jenny to help me, but I feel a deep gratitude. I could kiss her, if not run the risk of Neil punch my face.
While Liam and Nicole Paige discuss and how much she is a witch, I take out.
- I need to go. I guess I'm no longer needed here.
Since Penelope is my date, so we need to fix some details.
- But Adam!
Along the way, I try to convince myself that I am not being ridiculous, begging a little or no attention from the woman I love.
I even question whether this is not a punishment for the way I treated all the women who have gone in my life. Certainly a good portion of them, if they could see me now, would feel avenged.
On the other hand, if this was some assurance that Penelope would come back to me, I accept my punishment with resignation.
I arrive at the apartment, and my heart goes downhill when I think I did not plan what I was going to say.
Toco the company and let fate decide for me. Walk the short distance down the hall. I'm nervous as a kid on his first date.
Troubled by the delay, press the button again.
There is no one at home. The destination is the same to me.
I do not want to go back to my empty house. I decide to look for Liam.
- Where are you?
- In the garage. Is that you?
- Mom is at home?
- Out with the doctor for a gala dinner.
The doctor, as he likes to call it, is our father. It had started when he began his internship in the same hospital as my father. Of course the old hate.
- Ask pizza - I whisper to park in a convenience store - I buy the beers.
- Who said I want to talk to you?
- Liam, can you hear me at all?
- You know the brand I like. Bring those potatoes that taste too.
- Anything else?
I am smiling and relieved him give. I Love Liam and miss him. I can not lose anyone else.
- And those bullets gum and chocolates.
I buy everything he asked for and a little more. The house seems empty without the twins running and screaming everywhere.
Liam meeting in the living room watching TV.
Just when I put the beers on the table, the bell sounds. Still ignoring me, he passes me to answer the door. The pizzas arrived.
- Seriously, Liam? - I ask laughing while looking at the flavors.
He had chosen anchovy pizza. I hate anchovy pizza. If I were hungry, I would throw the box on his head. Instead, set a bottle of beer and sit beside him, barely disguises the smile as he opens a bag of potatoes. He hates anchovies much as me.
He had done it on purpose, just to punish me.
- Who's going to eat all that?
Sees the boxes untouched with some regret.
- Dad! - Respond together.
If you have something that our father hates, as both of us to this pizza, they are social events that Mom forces you to go with her, and they serve, according to him, bird food.
He will be happy to eat one of the pizzas. I picked up the boxes and take to the kitchen. Keep them in the oven and leave a message for when he arrives.
Upon his return, against Liam sprawled on the couch, watching the replay of a game on TV while devouring a huge package of potatoes.
I grab my beer and Sweep the shopping bag.
- There!
Something sharp hit my hand before I get another package.
- Get your hands off my potato!
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sp; Breathe deep and loose the package. I sit on the sofa corner and stare at him hard.
- How long will you stay tantrum?
- How long will you be a fool? - He retaliates.
Touché!
- It was she who broke up with me, Liam, and not the other way - I see him stand up and bend down toward me, like a cat ready to attack.
- If a crazy broke into my house, put cameras in my apartment and controlled my life - it returns to the previous position, and with the thumb pointed at the ceiling and the indicator for me, he aims at me - I'd give a shot in her head.
Spit the drink just drink. Liam choose the best moments to say the most absurd things.
- Are you suggesting that Penelope should have shot me?
- I do not blame her - he shrugs - but give you a foot in the ass hurt more.
Rosno. Liam is the one who makes me want to punch someone's face. It has always been like that.
- If you had told me what I would do - Liam gives a long sip of his beer, as if she could calm - And Peter ... That asshole. She did not deserve this, Adam. Not even.
I know that Liam has a special affection for Penelope, but he's my brother.
You should not be on my side?
- Does not come with this. You missed ugly and you know it.
Apparently, for him, I'm an open book. Or maybe I know me better than myself.
- I screwed up again - the deposit bottle on the table. The taste starts to get bitter. Or maybe it's me that I feel so - I lost the only person who could make me happy.
- There's just no way to death. Both are alive and acting stupidly. Anyone can see that they are crazy about each other.
- I promised I would leave her alone.
- Since when does what others want?
Annoy me again. Liam knows how to be unbearable when you want.
- I was thinking so I lost.
- You lost it because he did everything wrong - he looks at me with eyes of superiority. The same as a teacher instructing a student - started as a boor and ended in love. And he acted like an ass.
- And you believe that I should have done? No, better: what do you think I do?
He gets up, grabs another beer and sit back. Still looked at me and raising my bad mood.
-Be Her friend.
- What?
His eyes roll and he stares at me with a little patience.
- Start from the beginning, like everyone else. Be her friend. Make it back to trust. Make her fall in love again. And if all else fails, impregnate it.
Although Liam is the same smart ass ever, I see a great opportunity in told me.
- I think it can work - smile for the first time, and really, after a long time.
- Go get her pregnant? - He spits the drink as I did earlier.
- Trying to be your friend. Evan walked on that side and it seems to work.
- Evan? Evan Parker?
- It's a long story. I will do what you suggested. In the worst possibilities, we will be friends. I'd rather that than stay away from her.
She loves me as a friend, but they still love me.
- Cheers to that.
I grab my bottle and I play in it.
- When he was so wise?
- I was always - he pretends to be offended - you never give me value. Heck, I'm a doctor. Wisdom is my middle name.
- Your middle name is Goofy.
Immediately, a pillow fly to my face.
- And yours is ingratitude.
Bottleneck. Open another bottle and picked up the potatoes package. This time there was no protest.
- Adam?
Paro a small portion to five centimeters from my mouth and look at him.
- Why he insisted that Penelope did pair with you in the wedding Richard?
Return the snack packaging and reflect on your question.
- I wanted to be near her - deep breath - could be the last time.
- I'm relieved.
- I also felt jealous of you.
- Adam! I would never do anything that hurt.
- You're an amazing guy, Liam. Beautiful, smart, and makes her laugh - eye to the ground unable to look at his face - People fall in love. It happens.
- I would never do something that hurt.
- I know that.
- Then get this new chance, and my sanity, be happy. And if you do shit, ask me first.
- Yes sir. You know I love you, right?
His cheeks burn. I like it. Let him aback. It's a great revenge.
- Idiot.
Another pillow flies over my shoulder.
- Buster - will hit you back, hitting his beer.
- Dumb!
We remain so for a long time, until our vocabulary of insults become limited. Basically, we are two bobões who love each other and wish each other happiness.
I may not be so lucky in love, but I have amazing friends. Liam, no doubt, is the best of them. This goes far beyond being my brother.
Chapter 24
Penelope
Three days for the wedding of Paige, and I still can not believe she's about to ruin the groom's bachelor party.
Getting the address with Peter was not difficult, I used blackmail. The man is desperate for my forgiveness. Something that will not give so early, but the fact is that helped me get what I wanted.
Obviously he believes that I desire a rapprochement with Adam. Not far I thought about it. Okay, maybe I have thought a bit. But it's only because now I have a reason.
- Thanks for doing this for me, Penelope.
Every time titubeei about it, Paige comes to me with a sweet smile.
- There's still time to give up this madness. Richard will not like.
- He'll love - she says, as if we were buying an Armani suit for him, and not about to ruin your evening.
- You just have to keep it there, until the music starts.
When she told me the plan was to get in unnoticed, corner, tie and emordaçar the dancer Peter had hired for the show, I figured it would not have any possibility of this plan happen.
Not only was all right, and now I'm frightened a girl crying at my side, surely thinking that we are whimsical.
- Do not let go - instructs Page, while placing the black silk robe. - If she tries, break that vase on her head.
Ham? What? I guess I never killed a cockroach in life, the more harm anyone intentionally.
She looks at us both with face jumping eyes.
- Paige! You could not have offered her money? - I escoro me against the counter, for support - I do not feel well.
Course use this day to have a talk with Adam about our son was not the best decision of my life. Starting with I have spent every day after the doctor's appointment, under tension. Which just left my emotional state even more shaken. Then embark on the latest madness Miss Fisher promised disaster in the right. And, combining all this, there are days when I do not feel well. I even look for my doctor, who reassured me saying that fatigue and malaise that come natural sense are in early pregnancy. In accordance with it, then it will. I really do not feel like that. At this point, I feel like I might pass out any minute.
if -Sit here - it leads me to a chair next to the dancer - Just do not let it out, okay? Not until the music starts playing.
I shake my head and close my eyes. I hear the door slam, breathe in and out a few times, at least to have the slight feeling that the dizziness was gone.
I open my eyes and look at the frightened young. I feel bad again. In love and war anything goes, but Paige had gone too far.
'I'll drop you - whisper to raise, without knowing exactly why I'm whispering - I'll take the gag, please do not cry, okay?
Untie the knot that Paige had done. To my surprise, the girl is dead, but his glower worth a thousand cries of the girl of Psychosis. Untie the knots in her feet and wrists, at the same time the music starts.
I hear the voice of Beyoncé in the background, but I can not identify the song.
I'll give part of bo
th the police as well as you can find Peter!
She hurriedly walks to the door. Using a force that did not exist in me, move away and to support me against the door, preventing her skirt.
- Oh, no, please - I beg with tearful voice - She did not mean it. Paige is crazy about the groom, completely in love, and very intense at times, but it is not bad.
She had broken a vase in my head!
-I Would not do that - I hasten to clarify this point - and she was joking. Listen, I have received the money, and will not even need to do the job. In addition, you will receive a bonus.
She stares at me suspiciously, but a faint smile appears on her lips painted.
- Bonus?
- Yes - I depart from the door and walk to my purse.
Luckily, I had drawn money to shop for home the next day.
- One hundred U.S. dollars? - Both the woman look like the sound of his voice have disdain.
- It is only a down payment - say in a hurry - If you can leave your bank details, I'll do the rest tomorrow.
She reflects for a second or two and walks to the bench. Write everything you need to transfer.
- And how will the rest of the bonus?
- One hundred U.S. dollars?
-Duzentos Dollars the total? - She snorts High - You know how much is my night?
I bite my lips. Forget a lovely wedding gift, Miss. Fisher - I say mentally.
- It's all right. One hundred dollars now and another three hundred tomorrow.
- Four hundred U.S. dollars? - I'm impressed with his indignation. This is more than a worker would earn in a week.
- Listen well - now me furious encounter. What's in me that makes people believe that I am stupid? - Received for something that did not, and still earn extra just to stay sitting, looking at my face.
- I was kidnapped, bound and tortured psychologically.
- Then go to the police - I cross my arms and stare at the firm - My boyfriend is a lawyer, I think I can get out of this.
Adam is not my boyfriend, but she needs to know, not the sheriff or the judge.
- So is the four hundred dollars or nothing - stretch the hundred dollars to her, and surprised me by my hands are not trembling - What do you say?
- Okay - she rears her chin before leaving - I hope the rest tomorrow.
Collapse in the chair. I feel a slight urge to throttle someone.
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