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“Get out!” I scream.
She holds up her hands as if to stop me, but she does it smiling as if she’s won. “I’m going, honey, but I’ll be back.” Next, she opens the door, and I almost take a breath, glad she’s gone. Sadly, she’s not finished. “Dom? If you don’t tell Thea about me and the baby, I will.”
With that ultimatum delivered, she leaves. I slam the door, sinking to the floor as my world crashes around me. What the fuck am I going to do?
Chapter 42
Thea
Two Days Later
I walk into the kitchen to find Dom standing in front of the stove. The smell of bacon and scrambled eggs permeates the air. This makes the second day straight that he’s made breakfast for us. It might not seem like a big thing to some, but I know how much Dom hates cooking. There have been other changes, too. I don’t know what it all means, but I’m starting to get a sick feeling in my stomach.
“Dom, is something wrong?”
“Of course not. Why would you think that?” he asks, but he doesn’t look me in the eye either. “I hope you’re hungry. I’m making all your favorites. I even cut up some fresh fruit that I found at the fruit market when I got off work yesterday.”
The fruit market.
Dom hates shopping. He is not the type to go to a fruit market unless I’m with him and even then, I’ve had to beg. What the hell is going on here?
“Seriously, Dom. You’re freaking me out. You’re different lately.”
“I’m not,” he counters. He puts down the spatula he was holding, turns to me, and pulls me into his arms. “I’m just happy, Thea. The woman I love told me she loves me. She’s going to marry me and build our lives together. I’m happier than I’ve ever been.”
He looks away from me and this icky feeling fills me. I know he’s lying. I can feel it. A couple of days ago, when I got home from school, he was visibly upset but insisted everything was fine. Since then, he’s been broody and on edge all the time. I’m worried, but I can’t get him to talk to me. Unless we’re making love, which is happening constantly and definitely more intensely—not that I’m complaining—it’s like there’s a wall up between us. I’ve let it go, thinking it has to do with him leaving the club. I can’t let it go on, though. It’s not getting any better, and I’m starting to panic. Something has definitely changed, although I'm not exactly sure what. “What is going on with you?”
“What do you mean?” he asks, but his voice still sounds off to me.
“Dom, stop. I have to know what is going on here.”
“Nothing is going on,” he insists, making me mutter under my breath.
“Bull crap. Be honest, Dom. Are you having second thoughts about us?”
“Thea, I’m just trying to show my woman that I love her.”
I move deeper into his arms with a sigh. “You showed me that last night. Much more of it and I’ll have to run away to recover,” I joke. As I pull back, I see a look of pure panic on his face. Seeing that look on a man who has always been so cocky and sure of himself makes my blood runs cold.
“Dom, seriously, what’s going on? You’re scaring me.”
“Fuck,” Dom hisses, his whole body vibrating with some deep emotion that I can’t name. “Jesus, Thea. I know I need to tell you, but I don’t know how.”
I was beginning to panic before. Now, I’m just a damn mess. What am I missing here? What could have changed so drastically after he asked me to marry him? “Just tell me already,” I implore him. I can’t take not knowing anymore. I have to find out what’s going on and hopefully, fix it.
“The other day while you were at the college, I had a visitor,” he says, sitting down at the breakfast bar. I sit beside him and try to still my heart. It’s running away with me right now.
“Your dad came back?”
“No…”
“My dad?”
“No,” he breathes, his head goes down as his arms go up and he rubs his hands through his hair. Seeing him like this is killing me.
“Dom, baby, you’re going to have to give me something here.”
“It was Gabby,” he confesses and my heart squeezes inside my chest. For a second, I can’t catch my breath.
