Chapter 0344


    So | move on. Because if | don’t, I’m going to have that meltdown Janeen is looking for.


    “Don''t tell him anything,” | say quietly, looking down into myp.


    “Why not?” Daniel asks, curious.


    “Because,” | reply, flicking my eyes up to his. “I don’t trust those phones. | know that they''re supposed to be confidential because


    prisoners have rights, or whatever,” | say, rolling my eyes, “but after everything Ivan pulled, | don’t believe in rights at all


    anymore.”


    I clench my teeth again, frustrated and determined, and my threerades sit quietly, watching me.


    “Kent can’t know anything either,” | say quietly, looking around at all of them, finally deciding to let them in on the n, just a little


    bit. “Because what | have nned...he has to be in ignorance of it. Complete ignorance, all right? Until | say so.”Belongs to ? n0velDrama.Org.


    They all just stare at me, silent.


    “Okay?” | ask sharply, making Janeen flinch a bit.


    “Okay,” Daniel replies, and my sister and Jerome just nod.


    “And | don’t want to take any calls from him,” | say, making the decision suddenly and turning to Daniel so he sees that | mean it.


    “Tell him not to call me on my phone. And if he calls you on yours, | don’t want to speak to him.”


    “Why?” Daniel asks,pletely confused and looking so terribly sad for me.


    “Because,” | say, biting out the words, ignoring his pity so that | can be bitter and determined. “As far as the world is concerned


    right now, Kent means nothing to me. Nothing. He’s my husband''s disgraced father, who embarrassed us and is going to be in


    jail for decades and never meet his grandchild. As far as everyone else is concerned, he never meant anything to me, and |


    never expect to see him again in my life.”


    Daniel swallows hard over a lump in his throat, but nods. Jerome doesn’t say or do anything, just sits still, staring at me.


    But Janeen leans forward. “Fay,” she says, shaking her head. “Not even like...if Kent called now? If we were alone — and Natalia


    and Alessi weren''t here — you...you wouldn’t want to talk to him.”


    “No,” | reply, my voice harsh, though | look down into myp, suddenly too exhausted to hold my head up. “Because | don’t trust


    the phones and | don’t...1 don’t trust...”


    Myself, | think, looking down into myp.


    Because that''s the truth of it.


    | know that if | hear Kent''s voice, I’m going to fall to pieces. And | cannot — cannot fall to pieces right now. | need every bit of


    strength | have, and if | talk to him, even for a moment, I’m going to want to lean on him — and tell him everything — and let him


    sort it all out for me, and tell me what to do, and how to do it —


    But he — he can’t do that. He just can’t - not from his ce in jail — not without getting caught.


    So, | have to do it for him. And it’s all so precarious right now that | just can’t slip.


    “Fay,” Janeen says, her voice too soft. With effort, | lift my head and meet her eyes. “Is it...are you moving on?” she asks, her


    voice squeaking a little with emotion that she doesn’t usually show. “Are you...do you not love him anymore?”


    | fall back in my chair, my mouth falling open in shock.


    Because...


    But then anger overtakes me.


    “God damn it, Janeen,” | snap,


    standing up and ring at her over


    the table. “If | were giving up,


    think I''d b worked thie ard If | was


    mhovirtd on, don’t you think I''d have


    just taken Daniel''s offer to go live


    peacefully in Europe and raise the


    baby there?” | pause, looking around


    at the three of them, letting my words


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    “I''m doing this,” | continue, pressing a


    single finger against the table,


    “because | love him. All night-AAG


    that''s the ast tinte YEN Rear me say


    i DeCaL e it''s too dangerous a


    statement to utter in this new world


    we''re building. But don’t any of you,” |


    hiss, ring around at all of them,


    “even begin to doubt it. Not for a


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    And then, too angry and


    overwhelmed to say an ingrelse} lh


    push away rom he tab e and storm


    through the door into my house.


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    As | head to the open door of my room, | hear Janeen’s question echo behind me.


    “Guys...what the hell does she have nned?”


    And Daniel''s baffled answer.


    “Honestly...| have no idea.”