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Chapter 43
Dom
I hang up the phone. Mom has just reamed my ass for the last hour over Thea. My woman has been gone for three days and I’m surprised I’m still walking. Without her, my life is completely shattered. I know I deserve it. What I’m feeling probably doesn’t begin to encompass how she is feeling. I just don’t know how to fix it. I’ve tried to speak with her, but she’s all but hiding from me. She won’t talk to me at all. I know she’s staying with her parents, but they won’t let me through the door.
Hell, I only know Thea’s there because Mom told me. Today was like the third time she berated me like I was still five. I take it each time, because fuck…I deserve it. At least she has agreed to talk to Thea on my behalf. That’s the best I can hope for at this point.
I ordered some more flowers before Mom called. I send Thea a bunch every day. They’re always turned away, but I still do it—mostly because I can’t think of anything else. I want her to know that I miss her and think of her every day. I want her to know I love her. I’m about two steps away from camping out in front of Bull’s house.
Someone starts pounding on my door and I brace myself. Who it could be at this point is a tossup, but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to see who it is. On the flip side, I have a lot of raw anger to work out, so maybe it will give me someone to wail on. I wouldn’t mind if the person trying to knock my door down is Gabby’s father, Skull. He’d be a good target right now.
That hope dies when I open the door and three men are standing outside—Bull, Breaker and my dad. This doesn’t bode well. I expected one or even two of them, but all three together is like winning a lottery that I never wanted to enter.
“We doing this outside or inside?” I ask, not even pretending I don’t know why the assholes are here.
“Let us in, Dom,” Dad grumbles.
“Inside it is,” I mutter as I stand back.
Once they’re inside, I close the door and face them. I walk over to the new table I bought Thea to replace the old one that was damaged in mine and Dad’s fight. I grab the glass vase off the top of it. It’s an exact copy of the one Thea bought that shattered in the fight. I drove to the home store after work yesterday and picked it up.
“What the fuck are you doing?” Bull asks.
“I get you assholes want to beat the hell out of me. Fuck, I deserve it. I’d do it myself if it were possible, so I get it. My woman loved this vase when she bought it. Dad and I already destroyed one. I’m going to protect the one I bought yesterday to surprise her with. You can try to kill me once I make sure it’s safe.”
“You don’t have a woman,” Bull grumbles. “You broke her heart.”
“She’s mine. I won’t give up until she forgives me.”
“That will be hard for her to do when you’re busy with Gabby,” he taunts.
“I’m not going to be busy with Gabby,” I growl.
“I ought to just kill you and be done with it. I told you not to fuck over my sister.”
“I haven’t.”
“You knocked up that bitch who’s not even worth licking Thea’s shoes,” Breaker responds in disgust.
“I’ve convinced these two not to kill you without hearing your side of it,” Dad says. “So, you should probably do that while they’re still calm.”
I could almost laugh. The vibes coming off Bull and Breaker are so violent it makes the air around us all heavy. Instead of concentrating on that, I look at my father and try to figure him out.
“Does this mean you don’t think I deserve all of this shit for hurting Thea?”
“Let’s just say I’ve realized that I’ve jumped to conclusions that my son was fucking up and following in his old man’s footsteps. I believe you love Thea. So, I need to know what the hell is going on.”
“Thea hasn’t told you guys?” I ask, shocked.
“All she will do is tell her momma that Gabby is pregnant, and she only told her that after we promised not to kill you.”
“So, you plan on leaving me alive?” I laugh bitterly.
“Barely,” Bull shrugs and I nod in acceptance. It’s no less than I deserve.
I all but collapse in a recliner, so fucking tired of all this shit. I’m almost disappointed they’re not going to kill me. If my life is going to go on without Thea in it, I’m not sure I want to survive. Hell, standing on the outside of her life may kill me on its own. I drop my head down in my hands and visions of all my dreams sifting through my fingers like sand begin haunting me. Thea is my forever. How in the fuck am I supposed to go on without her?
“Son?”
