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“You never call me at work,” Drew states, suspicion lacing his tone.
“I’m glad I did though, Son. Had an interesting chat with the girl who answered the call.”
Henry fixes his eyes on Drew’s and the tension builds in the room until it’s palpable.
What the hell’s going on?
“Really?” Drew grits.
“You didn’t tell me Alicia had left?” Henry continues to stare at Drew. “She was such a nice girl. I thought you and her were going to get married at one point. She said as much to me herself when I met her.”
“Then you were both wrong, weren’t you?” Drew grits.
“Pretty too,” Henry continues. “Don’t you think?”
The name Alicia is familiar.Drew’s ex.The one he dated. The one he admitted he moved in with when he lived in New York.
My gut churns as though I might throw up. There’s a reason Henry’s bringing her up.
“Drew?” I look at him in question, but he grits his teeth and doesn’t meet my eyes.
Henry chuckles, enjoying the suffocating atmosphere.
"Dad!” Maddy snaps as Violet watches him with an uneasy expression.
“You know, it’s funny how rumors start in offices,” Henry muses, taking another sip of coffee. “When I told the girl I spoke to I was your father and knew Alicia, she asked if I’d heard from her since the ‘incident’. She hoped that Alicia wasn’t embarrassed about what happened and that it wasn’t the reason she left.”
Drew’s grip tightens on the chair so much that the wood’s in danger of splintering.
“Don’t,” he spits. “Don’t you fucking dare go there.”
His reaction only seems to spur Henry on, who waves a hand dismissively in the air.
“Why? It’s all innocent. I told her she must have it wrong. That you couldn’t have possibly been seen waving Alicia off from your hotel. Not with wet hair like you’d just showered.”
“Drew?” I utter, looking up at him as my heart begins to race in my chest, things slotting into place with each painful beat.
“It wasn’t like that,” he murmurs, barely meeting my eyes for a second before he’s glaring back at Henry again.
“Then what was it like?” I whisper, my throat tightening and going instantly dry.
“Sophie,” he whispers, finally looking at me, something heavy in his eyes that makes my heart stall in my chest.
“What was it like, Drew?” I croak as I search his eyes for the man I know. The man who would never lie to me. Who promised me it wasUs. Communication. Honesty.
“According to the gossip circulating around the New York office, Alicia was there sucking your dick, wasn’t she, Son?”
Violet and Maddy gasp.
Henry delivers the blow. But it’s the lack of denial shining back at me in Drew’s eyes that hits me like a sledgehammer.
All the air leaves my lungs.
“Drew?”
Sickness claws at the back of my throat until I force it back down with a thick swallow.
“That’s ridiculous.” Violet scoffs.
