Chapter 347
Tristan
“Everything comes out wrong with you lately,‘ she said, and the exhaustion in her voice scared me more than the anger had.
‘I’m tired Tristan, I’m so tired of trying to prove to you that I can take care of myself and the babies. You need to know that am not Jess.” her words made me pause, my hands fisted.
I’m sorry, but I’m tired. I too have gone through some trauma, I’m scared too. But God knows I don’t let it get in–between us.” I couldn’t say anything this was the first time she was bringing up Jess in our discussion.
I’d caused this, I’d take whatever she saying. I’ll take it all.
‘I’ve never questioned you, even when you had to place your life on the line. I didn’t think it was the right thing to do, but I trusted you. So why can’t
you trust me Tristan. Why?”
“I love my kids, and I’m going to protect them.”
She moved toward the stairs and panic seized my chest.
“Where are you going?” I asked.
“Away from you,” she said without turning around. “I need space, I need time to think, I need to not be looking at your face right now.”
“Athena please,” I said, following her toward the stairs.
She stopped and turned to face me, the look on her face made me freeze.
“If you want to end our relationship because I saved your life,” she said slowly, each word deliberate and clear, “then I don’t mind, if that’s what this is really about then it’s over, we’re done.”
The words hit me like bullets and I felt something crack in my chest, felt pain radiating through every part of me.
“No,” I said, but it came out barely more than a whisper. “No that’s not what I want.”
“Then what do you want?” she asked, and I could hear the brokenness in her voice now. “Because I can’t keep doing this, I can’t keep walking eggshells wondering when you’re going to decide I’m not good enough, when you’re going to look at me like I’m the enemy.”
“You’re not the enemy,” I said desperately.
on
“Then why do you keep treating me like one?” she asked.
She didn’t wait for an answer, just turned and walked up the stairs and I watched her go, watched her climb each step like she was carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders.
When she reached the top she disappeared down the hallway and I heard a door close with a soft click that sounded final.
I stood there frozen, staring at the empty staircase, feeling like I’d just watched my entire future walk away from me.
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Chapter 347
My legs felt weak and I had to grab the banister to keep from collapsing.
She said it was over.
She said we were done.
The pain in my chest intensified and I struggled to breathe around it, struggled to process what had just happened.
I turned to Orion and Sarah, looking for help, looking for anything that might tell me how to fix this.
‘Please,” I said, and I didn’t care that my voice was shaking. ‘Please help me,
tell me how to fix this.”
Orion stood slowly and I felt a flash of hope that maybe he’d intervene, maybe he’d go talk to Athena and make her understand.
“I tried to warn you,” was all he said as he walked past me toward the stairs. “I told you not to let your anger make you do something you’d regret.”
He climbed the stairs without looking back and I turned to Sarah desperately.
She was staring at me with something that looked like disappointment and it made me feel about two inches tall.
“Sarah please,” I started.
“If you don’t fix whatever you broke,” she said, cutting me off, “I’m going to make sure I support whatever decision she makes, I’m not going to sit here and watch her be treated like this.”
Orion raised an eyebrow at that but said nothing.
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