“Are you sure?” I press because—my God, I suck at this. “I don’t have to?—”
“Get off my porch, Sienna.”
And then he steps back and slams the door in my face with an unforgiving thud.
It’s so loud in my ears that my body jolts like I just suffered through a car accident.
“Good luck with everything,” my stupid brain decides to still say through the giant lump in my throat, even though he can’t hear me.
Slowly, I start to pivot, feeling the world tilt on its axis. I feel like I can sense his eyes burning on the back of my head as I go.
But that’d be impossible since he slammed the door in my face.
I don’t want to see him ever again; it’s the only thought that keeps me walking down his driveway and to my car.
So any parent-teacher conferences we need to have can be exactly how he wanted them before.
Through email.
16
MICAH
A month later…
The wayI feel is like someone’s ripping my entire old self out of my body—the version of me I built after Laura left, the one who was finally content. I had Heath, a really good job with guys I liked. A purpose. I just had to be a good man, and eventually, good things would come.
Well, they did.
Their name was Sienna Vesper.
Through the last several weeks, I’ve come to realize that Laura is the one person in my life who can still make me feel so strongly in a negative way.
Who eats up all the good I was trying to do before.
All the aspirations of things I wanted for myself, my son, and a life I was in the middle of building all came to a crashing halt.
The only thing I can focus on is burying Laura in court and forcing her out of our lives for good. 899
Nothingpleasantcomes out of Laura Groves. I’ve berated myself a million and one times about how I could be so fucking stupid as to date her in the first place.
To fuck her to spawn a child with her.
As much as I would never take back the moment she gave life to Heath, there is a small part of me that wishes I had waited. That…if I had, Heath would have a different mom. I would have another future and life.
Laura comes with a lot of unnecessary drama, and it’s my fault I’m here. It’s my fault that I had to break things off with Sienna.
I couldn’t risk her.
There was no way I was going to drag her down this deep, dark hole that Laura was going to lead me in. When there’s my ex, there’s a darker side of me that comes out to play. I’m all petty and no mercy when it comes to that woman. There is literally no chance in hell I was going to allow or put Sienna into that.
That woman was light.
That woman deserves the world, her job, and no gossip mills running around town with her name in it.
No, keeping her safe is a priority of mine, and regardless of the way I felt I had to go about it, it’s done.
We’re done.
