chapter 86
I didn’t call Tobey. I didn’t want to risk waking him up, on the slim chance that he’d gone back to bed. I loaded Titan into the back, then climbed into my SUV and drove home to face him. Before I pulled out of the garage, I sent him a text. On my way home. I’m safe. Love you.
It was four in the morning. Too early in the morning to make a life-changing decision.
But too late in the game to lie anymore.
I could see myself becoming a different woman, the kind who snuck around, who lied, who cheated.
Too easily could I fall into that role. The truth of the matter was, for Chase, I think I was born for that role.
I had been his since the moment we met. Everything else, everything with Tobey, had been a lie.
A lie I’d told myself since my pregnancy, but started believing in recent years.
The car rolled over bumpy New York streets, and I glanced at the time again, hesitating. Then I reached for my phone, and unlocked it, my dial of digits slow.
It rang only twice, and then he answered.
At the sound of his voice, I started crying.