I turn around prepared to let him have it. I’m furious that he thinks that he can disappear from my life and just come back into it like nothing’s changed. Like I haven’t changed. Demanding me to listen to him? The fuck? “You know what, Jacob? You’re right. I am different. I’ve moved on and I am not interested in whatever this is anymore. I met someone. I’m happy. And while what we had was great and fun, it’s not who I am anymore. You don’t just get to come back into my life and fuck it all up just because you’re unhappy. It’s over, Jacob.”
I don’t give him a chance to respond before I’m out of the door and moving down the stairs and out the front door within seconds.
Well, that could have gone better. I rub a hand over my forehead as I watch her from her bedroom window. She’s pacing the driveway, assumedly waiting for her Uber while she looks down at her phone. I don’t see Chloe or Mason, so I wonder if she’s just trying to escape without anyone asking questions which leads me to believe she’s probably going home. Not sure where she lives though. I watch from the window until a car arrives and she hops in before it drives off.
I head downstairs in an effort to find Chloe or maybe something that will give me an inkling as to where she lives. I curse myself for stooping this low but I know the best way to figure out where she lives. “Miche, I want to send Whitney and her fiancé something, can you give me her address? I meant to get it, but I can’t find her… did she leave?”
“Without saying anything? I doubt it!” Michelle says as she hops up from the table where her and a group of people are playing cards. “But yes, let me grab it. Her and Parker live not far from here.”
She lives WITH that fucker? Jesus Christ. At least he’s out of town.
She jots it down on a piece of paper before handing it to me and I nod. I feel like shit for lying to Michelle but I just… I need more time. I know this makes me an asshole, but I can’t let her go that easily.
“Thanks, Miche. I’m probably going to head out though.”
“So soon?”
“Yeah, I’m still exhausted from the trip. But I think I’m coming over to watch the game with Kev tomorrow.”
“Oh, good!” She kisses my cheek. “See you!” She waves me off before going back to the table of people that had been shouting for her to come back ever since she got up.
I scan the room and don’t see Trey or Chloe or even Mason making me wonder if Whitney won’t be alone for much longer. I’m in my car in minutes and I put their address in my GPS and I’m grateful to see that they don’t live far. I arrive in less than fifteen minutes and I see that the lights are on inside. Part of me wants to call because I had no interest in setting foot in a house that Whitney shares with another man. But she probably wouldn’t answer and I find myself at war with what to do.