Chapter 51

MIA

THE COPS MIGHT HAVE RETURNED MY CRUSHED BEYOND REPAIR PHONE. PROBABLY ASKED ME IF I NEEDED ANY ASSISTANCE BUT what I needed so bad was to run away.

Then Alessandro had caught up to me in the parking lot and no matter how hard I tried running he caught up to me but the most heartbreaking thing of the day was the way he looked at me, the way he said what he said, how happy he was when I told him he wasn’t the father.

And that moment right there I wanted to tell him he was the father instead, to watch his reaction as he realized well surprise surprise we were having a fucking baby.

The tears I had shed when I got into my car were so bitter, I felt like I was drowning in a pit of lemon sours.

It hurt in my chest, it hurt in my muscles and it hurt that no matter the time and distance, Alessandro Petrakis was in my heart.

Taking the elevator to my apartment had been so difficult, I had to lean against the walls taking short breaths to even out the melancholy circulating my body the way