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“A waste… you would know,” he spits the words like venom, and they hit me directly in the heart.
I refuse to show him how much that blow hurt me. How the truth only solidified the things I already suspected. It sucks, but I’ll finally be able to let go and move on.
“Yeah, okay,” I say, and move to leave the room.
“If you walk out that door, don’t you dare think of ever coming back. You will not be welcome in my home,” he says.
I stop, turning to look at him again and he smirks, thinking he’s won.
Wrong.
“Was I ever?” I say and walk into the hallway.
My mom follows after me while he’s distracted and I’m thankful to have a second alone with her.
“Bodhi,” her voice is pleading, but I have to do this.
I can’t leave her behind, though.
I won’t.
“Mom, I want you to go upstairs and pack a bag. We can come back for the rest later,” I tell her, and her frantic eyes widen in fear.
“Bodhi, I can’t. He won’t… Bodhi,” she crosses one arm over her chest and fingers her necklace with the other.
“Mom, I lost one parent this week, and I will not stand by and let that man take you from me as well.”
A tear slips down her cheek, and I know that this will probably be the second hardest thing she’s ever going to have to do. But I will stand by her side through all of it.
“Mom, please? I love you, and I can’t stand by any longer and watch him treat you the way that he does. Pack your stuff, come live with me for now,” I beg her.
Her eyes soften, and I think that maybe I’ve almost got her. She always had the hardest time telling me know when I was little. That was until my dad forbade her from coddling me anymore. He was afraid it would make me too soft.
“Honey, I don’t want to impose on you,” she says, a sad smile gracing her quivering lips.
“Mom, if I asked, then it’s not an imposition,” I say, lifting my lips into a cheeky smirk.
Her smile fills my chest with warmth.
“I don’t know,” she says.
“Listen, I don’t know much yet, but Rob found out that Nana and Pops left me their house and property,” I say, and she gasps, clearly never having known this before.
Thompson, that sly bastard. He kept everything from her.
“He’s looking into seeing what needs to be done, but I want to move them back home. Hire some help, and maybe we can add onto the house, and you can stay with them,” I suggest, and her hopeful gaze never leaves mine.
I see her mulling it over for all of ten seconds before turning to listen for any noises coming from the living room.
We’re met with silence. She draws her bottom lip between her teeth and looks up at me, nodding silently.
“Be fast. Like I said, we’ll come back when he’s at work,” I say and she nods, rushing up the stairs.
I wait in the foyer in case he decides to try anything to stop her. When she rushes back down no more than five minutes later, I take her bag from her, and we leave that house.
Hopefully, once and for all.
Chapter 77
