“Fine, yes you’re right. I just…don’t want to go home just yet. That’s all.”
“Come over. I’ll make some hot chocolate and you can stay in the guest room and take Trap home in the morning.”
“You sure? I don’t want to intrude. It is late.”
“It’s not that late and I could use the company. Xander had to go away overnight on business.”
“Ok, I’ll see you soon then.”
***
As I turned onto the gravel driveway of the Boone’s home, I was surprised by how noisy it was. If they weren’t awake before, I definitely woke them now. Ashley stepped out of the old Georgian mansion with a large blue crocheted blanket wrapped around her shoulders and her dark hair pulled back into a ponytail.
“Hurry up!” She said. “I’m already heating up the milk.”
I followed her through the house to the long kitchen where she turned off the stove and portioned it into a couple of large mugs then dropped pieces of chocolate inside.
“This is how my mom used to make it when I was real little,” she said smiling. “I’m trying to redo all the things I remember fondly of her.”
As I sat down at the kitchen table, I felt the familiar nudge of Trap against my leg and reached down to pet him.
“Spill, Deb. what’s going on?”
“It’s so complicated I really don’t know what to say.”
“What’s complicated?”
“Will. Paris. Now. I don’t even know if he wants to see me. For all I know he wants nothing to do with me. I mean its ok, I’m not going to go psycho or anything. I respect his decision, but I just wish I knew what to do.”
“You’re really not making any sense. Back up.”
I told Ashley how Will gave me my own room in his mansion and how I let go of my apartment and moved all my things there. Then I told her a brief version of the trip, steering clear from giving her too many details and focusing on Will’s departure almost two days ago.
“That’s pretty much everything. I guess I just don’t feel comfortable showing up at his house when he couldn’t even be bothered to leave a note to say good bye. What if things changed?”
“Then don’t. Stay here as long as you want to. But can I say something?” I nodded to answer her before she continued. “If you really love him, you should go to him. You don’t know what he’s going through right now. He might think he wants no one around, but I bet that’ll change once he sees you came back early. Have you tried calling him?”
“No,” I said softly. “I was afraid he’d tell me to fuck off.”
“Listen, I don’t know exactly what you’ve been through, but the Deborah I know is the one who tells people to fuck off, not the other way around. Sleep here tonight, but I really think you should see him in the morning. It’s the only way you’ll know for sure what he’s really thinking.”
Ashley was right. I wasn’t acting like myself. I didn’t know if it was the trauma of the kidnapping, or the residual affects of the drug, but I needed to move on from this selfishness and be there for the man I loved. First thing in the morning I would head over to King Manor and find him.#p#分页标题#e#