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"Rissa, listen toI did want to hurt you I told my lawyer to keep his eyes open for the opportunity to buy any of the coape at hi deal Like it’s not the worst violation ever"
"That’s not what IAnd as soon as we started talking again, things started to change All the ways I wanted to hurt you, I wanted to help you Being around you remindedaround you has reain I’ve let et involved with someone who has an ulterior motive Someone ants to control me"
"I don’t want to control you My plan was to buy out all your clients just so you’d see me I wanted you to know that I could crush you The way you crushed ot to know you again I toldfor deals I didn’t realize that he’d already finalized this one He has power of attorney to conature I didn’t even know he’d done it until today I thought that I had tih so hard it actually hurtsme like he’s afraid to come any closer Which shows he really is a sht just scratch his eyes out
"That’s your defense? You’ve been accused of lying, ht diabolical and your defense isto tell you I just thought I had s out I’ll fix this and then things can go back to the way they were"
How could I not have seen this in him before now, that he will spin, cajole anditand I just couldn’t see it? Or did I do this to him?
Maybe this is my penance for my past sins To reconnect with the man I love only to find that he’s been destroyed and twisted by what I did to hibehind my back to bankrupt my business But it’s not just my business, Finn It’s Tara’s and Daphne’s and the women ork for us They’re all hurt too and it isn’t fair because they have nothing to do with our history"
I hold up s that he’ll say to convince me are probably already poised on his lips for a perfect delivery Finn has always been a h time he could wearBut I don’t want to let hio back to the way they were"
I sit down on the arm of the couch, suddenly exhausted and depressed The second wind I’d gotten when I found out about his treachery is deserting y I had when I first woke up
Briefly, I wish that I could rewind and go back to this nore the world We never truly enjoy our last moments of calm
"Please just let me try to fix this, Rissa I’ll sell the coency that they have to use your company’s services Or I’ll keep it and then you’ll know for sure that you have the contract as long as you want it"
He sounds so sincere, one shade close to begging and for a ive in But where does it end if I do that? Will he buy all rocery store where I shop or the salon where I get my hair done? Where will his sphere of control end? It’ll be just like before when I lived with Andrew, scared to tell anyone how he treated me because I holly dependent on hiain
"No matter what spin you try to put on this, it co You just want to control me just like Andrew did And I’m over that"
Driving ho so hard I don’t want to have an accident or endanger anyone else but I really just want to get ho to do with ain I really don’t want my mom to see me like this So I decide instead to return to my house Andrew’s house, I correctof it as my home It never really was
I pull up in the driveway and n taped to the door I get out, not bothering to lock up hbor on the left side is outside weeding When she sees me on the warpath toward the front door, she juht Go call and tell him I’m here
I snatch the paper off the door and scan the document quickly It’s some kind of notice that says I have three days to vacate the property for failure to pay rent
That bastard
Andrew is pissed so this is how he decides to punishIt shouldn’t even co he does Underhanded Juvenile Manipulative
My taste in men is consistent at least
I pull out my phone "Tara I’m so sorry to do this but can you come to my house? Andy has put some kind of eviction notice on the door and I’ll need help getting my stuff out"