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“I’m not having this conversation with you, Piper,” Hunter says. “You’re not throwing your verbal punches at me. I did my part. I picked him up. I fed him. He’s alive. We’re done here.”
Hunter turns and goes back inside.
He aggressively locks his door.
I swallow hard.
No matter how you look at it, the truth is that I sometimes hate myself for how things are for Saxon. He deserves someone else in his life. Someone who cares. Someone who supports him. I didn’t give birth to him with the hopes he’d become an Olympic swimmer. Or the highest paid tight end of all time.
I love that Saxon is who he is.
I wish Hunter appreciated it too.
I chase all emotion and threat of tears away on the walk to the SUV and climb up into the driver’s seat.
“Where’s your car?” Saxon asks.
“It broke down again. I’ll take care of it. You just enjoy the ride, okay? Pretend I’m your personal driver. Where to, good sir?”
Saxon smiles. “I’m feeling a little… taco-y right now…”
“Really?”
Saxon nods.
I don’t even ask if his father fed him dinner.
I really don’t care.
Plus, I’m hungry too.
Swimming and dealing with Cutter has my stomach empty and growling.
Plus, who could turn down a late night taco trip with their only child?
7
Cutter
Iwake up later than I expect, even after having what I would call a mostly boring night. Of course, I’m talking about after the Piper incident.
I sat out back, had a drink and raised my glass to the stars like some fool and thought about Piper in her bathing suit and that made me smile. I thought about her being so damn mean to me and that made me smile too.
When I slept though, I did not have a single dream.
I reach for my phone, just like any other person does.
The usual bullshit waits for me. Tony driving me nuts with messages.
Then there’s a message from a number not stored in my phone.
GET YOUR EMAIL ASAP
There’s a scissor emoji too.
Cute way to say Cutter I guess.
I sit up in bed and groan as the right side of my body is mad at me for getting an extra hour or two of sleep. It’s either the extra sleep or the extra swimming last night. Forcing myself to stay in the pool… because of Piper.
