Chapter 28
Gabriel
I wait for it to connect ||
The number you have called has been disconnected ||
Panic runs through me.]
I dial the number again ||
The number you have called has been disconnected||
Don’t you dare “I continue to pace as my temper rise. “You try this fucking shit on me and that’s ar]]
I call the number again in the hope that ve dialed the wrong number.]
The number you have called has been disconnected]
Infuriated. 1 throw my phone, and it bounces off my desk and onto the floor
With
my hands on my hips. I pace back and forth. “she thinks she can cut me just like that?”
She thinks that I can’t find her if she changes her fucking number.||
This is her being a control freak that’s what this is. I scramble for my phone and make another call
“Hey
“Mark, 1 want you to find an address for Violet Coleman.”
“Well, why don’t you just call her?” “Because her phone has been disconnected.“Silence
“Don’t well me,” I snap. “Tind out where she is.” I hang up and continue pacing and my phone rings, it’s Mark again, “What?” I stop as I answer.
“What town does the live in?” he snaps back]
“Connecticut? A
Are
e you sure that’s it, because I need a state or at least a town to run
Troll my eyes. “I don’t fucking know, check.” I hang up and march]]
out into the office to see that kichard is still at his desk. “Where did Violet||
Coleman move to?“||
Ite glances up “sorry?
pimpatiently. “Where is the? Where did she move in?||
“Surprised she didn’t move to Texas actualy?“||
“Why
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spath.”
“Anything else?]
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“What are you poing to offer her ? i koppen to lika Vioded and I’m not finding her If you sir pul going to screw her around, she’s left town and clamped bri
“What are your doing here, I first you
ally turns the corner ||
aut (jane I saw Vinder Coleman was when you had me atake out her house as het moving frick inte, mud she was crying and mixeralde. His eyes meet
tearview mirror. “Thonight she was your friesst “||
Det an eyelauw. “Well?”
“What kind of man looks for a woman if he already knows that when he finds her, he won’t give her what she neede?” My eyes hold his
“I know you’re a selfish prick, but you need to think about this be mise it’s not just any old piti, its Violet Coleman.” My bordet sinks ||
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“pot drive the car” I yell “ros piss me off. You’re fucking fired for peat this time:“††
for a while as adrenaline surges through my system. “You think you koue weerything about me, well,
“Tknow a bit more about you than anyone else, that’s for sure “||
my eyes. “Will you just shut the fuck up? I do pay for your opinion “||
“You’re lying, I drove her in your house, he barki, “you mulled
The “you her out
of the car. He grips the steering wheel. “I did think it was strange when you didn’t leave thr yacht in Italy“||
“Yala vermis) even in Haly.” I fice Hack.
So, but the security hoys called me from over there to see if everything was okay because you hosti’t let the yacht the entire time you were there.“[]
“1 was tired:*]
“of being a prick?”
“shut the fuck up 1 punch the back of the seat as I begs to lose contrat. “You haven’i
“That’s not who you are.”“”)
Out Slice Violet left: you haven’t had one single date.” “So what?” I Will
“Shut Up“]
*Are you going to do what you want to do, or are you going to do what you hurt to do?”
I clench my jaw as 1 slate out the window. You have no idea what you are talking about or what is expected of me.“”
” know more than you. Let’s go get her.” He shrugs. Tis ready, you want Violes, so let’s go get her.”
“So you’re my quack now with the reverse psychology?” i pinds the bridge of my nose as my elbow rests on the door. “I fucking hate you, you know that?”
We fallents the car pulls up at a set of traffic lights and the ad reality sets in can’t have Violet” I sigh||
“so why do you want to find her?” he says in a softer tone. ||
Because I miss her.
West in silence for a long time as my
my mind goes over the depressing facts ||
gu, it’s not fair for me to chase her when I can’t offer her what I want to
“Forget I said anything” I reply as I stare out the window. “It doesn’t matter.”
The car whizzes through the security gate and into the underground parking lot of my building as the memory of my Violet lingers]
So Gose but so far. I need to forget her.
Vide
I watch the baggage handler throw the last of the bags into the cargo hull, we boarded a plane and are on the tarmac, about to lower New York forever ||
It’s pouring with rain, the sky is depressed, along with my heart[]
I did it, I changed my number. Not
was ever piting to call anyway, laut at least now I have finality||
vill never have to see his name pop up on my screen. Or get excited every time it rings, only to be disappointed when it isn’t him ||
You okay?” Biel undes over at me as she takes my hand in hers]
mur 1 will never de skay, my heart has been broken beyond repair:[]
man for as long as
a as i live. I will be happy
Tilitening to “Someone Like You‘ from Adele on repeat.||
1
As the plane burtes down the runway, I silently wipe my tears
The lyrics about finding someone else lui different this time ||
int
1 screw up my face in trars; if only |
- I don’t know what headspace I’m in, but it’s like I’m purposely trying to tonture neysett||
