Chapter 26
Chapter Twenty Six
Nico
I’m fucking pissed. I was guaranteed that I would have the necklace by Sunday, and now here I am Sunday morning, dropping Cassi off at the airport, sans necklace.
I slipped off this morning before she woke up to grab it, and when I arrived, they told me that their courier had been delayed.
I was unreasonably pissed off and stormed out of there in a fucking foul mood.
A mood that seemed to practically melt away the instant I stepped into the brownstone and smelled Cassi’s perfume in the air.
“I’m sorry again about your surprise being delayed,” I say as I hold her hand in mine in the back of the car.
She looks to me with a sweet smile as she shakes her head.
“And I told you, you don’t need to get me anything. I also wouldn’t have even known there was a surprise to be had if you hadn’t told me, so all of this weird misplaced guilt is on you.”
I let out a sharp laugh at that and kiss the side of her head. True.
“I’ll have it for you the next time I see you. Maybe I can come to Seattle?”
“You do have a fancy jet at your disposal,” she smiles.
“I’ll talk to Virginia and see what she can do about my schedule this week, after I deal with Carly.”
Cassi’s nose wrinkles at that as she looks out the window.
Yeah, my sentiments as well. See, it’s not as easy as us just breaking up.
We live together, have for a few years now.
Our lives are intertwined and just because I don’t want to be with her anymore doesn’t mean I want to leave her out in the cold.
I’ve thought over what I’m going to say and how I’m going to handle things a million times over, but like Cassi said, this will not be going well. At all.