Chapter 50

FLAMES

I WAS BLOODY RUNNING TO MY CAR TOO.

CRAZED, OUT OF MY FUCKING MIND, PISSED, CONFUSED.

The phone I had dodged somewhere on my passenger’s seat rung. Traffic gained on us, the Audi sedan changed lane and I was two fucking cars behind to catch up to her.

Fucking Mia Tonelli.

I came to a stop the minute the red light shone from the traffic post picking my phone with hands shaking and that was a first.

I might have been angry at the situation, probably angry too at myself for chasing after a woman I swore never to chase the minute she left my fucking life but I was anxious and with the anxiety came the realization that she was two times her weight with a baby bump of what?

Five? Four months?

Around the time we weren’t together?

She was carrying a fetus in there not that pregnant women carried canon balls in them in the first place but the question was…

Shit.

Was the kid mine?

I might have not have liked the idea. Might have not wanted to chase after a woman under the hot sun across