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“You did not pull a fucking gun on my wife.”
“You told me to do what I had to do, Derek.”
I hear her mutter something under her breath. She’s scowling at us both from the foyer.
I move in her direction but before I get all the way there, she slams the door in my face and locks it.
“Did she take it?” I ask.
“I don’t know,” he says.
“Fuck!” I shout.
I key in my entry code and find her upstairs in the master bedroom, a mess of clothes thrown on the bed. She’s stuffing things into a suitcase.
“Chloe…”
“No!” she shouts, pointing at me. “Fuck you. Fuck off. Fuck you, Derek Steele. Fuck off! A fuckin’ gun pointed at me again, one of your goddamn goons abducting me?”
“Did you take it, baby? Please tell me you didn’t take it.” I drop to my knees in front of her and grab her hands. She tries to pull away. I hold tight. “Did you?”
She’s bawling.
“You didn’t. Please tell me you didn’t take it.”
“Go to hell,” is how my beautiful wife replies. And she says it without venom, she says it in a voice that echoes through my raw gut, making it feel even worse.
I can’t hack this. I can’t.
“I didn’t mean to fuck it up.” He looks up at me pleading with his eyes, hands holding mine way too tight while on his knees. “Please, baby. Forgive me.”
“Fuck you, Derek,” I repeat with difficulty.
“I’ll do whatever I have to do to show you that I won’t fuck this up. If you took it, we’ll try when you’re ready. When you tell me you’re ready, only then.” He holds on tighter.
“You fucked it up already,” I say, chin trembling. “You fucked it so hard, it can’t be fixed.”
“I’ll fix it.”
“You can’t fix it!” I shout.
“I will!” he shouts back, entire body trembling, the pain stark and raw on his face.
He really looks remorseful for once. And I don’t fucking care.
“You deceived me from day one, you blackmailed me, stalked me, you hurt Adam’s family, you threatened Alannah, I’ve had guns pointed at me more than once, had guns pointed at people I care about. You threatened to have Craig and Adam shot, to have Craig forced to be a dirty cop. You’ve made my promises mean nothing because you forced me to say things to you that I only intended to say once, that I swore I would only say once, and now you’ve taken my choices about my own body, about the rest of my future away? No. No way is any of this ever going to be okay.”
He gets to his feet. “I’ll fix it, Chloe.”
I scoff.
He lifts me up into his arms.
“Put me down!” I push at his chest and struggle.
“No. I’m gonna fix this.”
“No, Derek, put me down!”
