Unh-hunh.
This was not going as I’d planned.
At all.
It got worse when Gabe said, “And it’s far from unattractive in a woman or anybody that you’re financially responsible. Nor that you’ve got an abundance of hustle and go after what you want. Just so you know, I’m the same. With both.”
Gah!
Right, so I hadn’t planned for this to go so poorly so quickly.
But all wasn’t lost.
Because I wasn’t done.
“I think you missed the part where I shared I allowed Kevin to get me in a financial bind. That’s on Kevin, but it’s also on me. It was a poor decision, and one I need to process. However, it’s left me with trust issues.”
“I can see that,” he retorted. “But what you need to see is, normally, in a healthy, functioning relationship, partners look after each other. That ass was not healthy or functioning. That isn’t on you. But you know as well as I do that shit happens, and if one side of a partnership isn’t willing to kick in and cover if the other has taken a hit, it isn’t a partnership. What you did is what you’re supposed to do when her man takes a hit. So what you did was the absolute right thing to do. He just took advantage of it.”
Annnnnnd…
This hadn’t gone good from the start, but it was still managing to go downhill fast.
“Just to say, that is not unattractive either,” Gabe concluded. Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, he added, “Far fuckin’ from it.”
Lord, deliver me!
As far as I could tell, the only thing that was going well with this was how much I’d prepared for it.
So I kept at it.
“Okay,” I said. “You know about Kev, obviously, and Trev. And my dad. And I know you think you’ve figured me out, but even if I’ll grant what you said last night makes sense about my choices in men…”
He smirked.
It was sexy as all hell, and just as infuriating.
Grr.
I powered through it. “That does not negate the fact that I’m still processing all those things, and I shouldn’t be processing that while entering into a relationship.”
“Bullshit.”
I blinked.
Even if it was.
Totally.
It was bullshit.
Dreamer was right about that.
It had been months since Kev disappeared, and Kevin and I were over for months before that. I knew he was a mistake. I knew how he was a mistake. And I was so over him, it wasn’t funny.
I don’t think so, Logic butted in.
And Logic was wrong.
