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He pats my hand and comes around to sit back down with us.
“If you say so.”
33
Hayden
“Where are you?” I ask, pacing. Just like I’ve been doing for the last hour, waiting for her to call back. I’m pretty nerved up. I worked out in the gym downstairs, but it didn’t help. Nothing will, except figuring out what’s going on with Ada. Because I know her well enough to know that something’s up.
“I just walked into my apartment,” she says. “Sorry about earlier.”
“Ada, what’s going on? You know what, let me call you on video.”
She hesitates, and my heart practically seizes up while I wait for her to decide. Finally, she says, “OK.”
I hang up and call back. She answers right away, and I see she’s still in her work clothes, although she ditched the suit coat. Under different circumstances, I’d be taking off her peach camisole right about now. God, this is killing me.
“Why aren’t you over here?”
She sits cross-legged on her couch, a bright mural behind her, the colors swirling together as if framing her. I’ve never even been to Ada’s apartment, and I guess I probably won’t, because she’s about to break up with me.
I’m not an idiot.
Maybe I haven’t been in love before, but I have pissed off enough women in my life to sense what’s happening.
“I don’t think I can do this, Hayden.”
Boom. There it is.
“Why?”
It’s a good thing the phone is propped up on my kitchen counter, because my hands are shaking.
“I’m not at your place tonight because I don’t trust myself. When we’re together . . .” She shrugs. “I forget myself. I forget everything but you.”
Now I’m thoroughly confused.
“And that’s a bad thing?”
“In this case, yes.”
“You’re doing this for me?” I guess.
“You know what my dad said—”
“And I respect that, Ada. I really do. But we knew what we were getting into when we decided to pursue this. Nothing has changed.”
Except everything has. I really wanted to say this in person . . .
“You don’t understand, Hayden. You’re on track for approval. On time.”
You’re on track for approval.
It’s what we’ve been hoping to hear for months. No, ever since we agreed to the terms of the loan.
With FDA approval, Angel, Inc. is ready to fly.
And then Ada really twists the knife.
