Chapter 139: It Had To Be You
When Emily had accepted Derek’s call and had agreed to let him come into the diner, not that she had any choice, she had thought that it was a way of alleviating her stress of ending things once and for all.
But now, it turned out to be quite the opposite.
As the hours passed with no sign of Derek Haven whatsoever, Emily’s stress levels went higher and higher. Why would he call and not show up? Was he playing some sort of sick game with her?
One of those messed up ones that narcissists often played just to leave whoever it was that they were preying on at the moment, spinning, unable to form coherent thoughts because they were too busy trying to figure out what was going on. If so, then Emily wanted no part of it.
Derek could go jump off a cliff for all she cared.
Or maybe he was not playing games. What if some work thing had come up to stop him from showing up?
Or maybe while on the way there something had happened. What if he had gotten into an accident, and she was there calling him every name under the sun, in her mind, while he was somewhere fighting for his life. Shaking her head to clear the depressive thought, Emily tried to think of something more reasonable.
Yeah, the chances of him being in an accident were low. Especially when considering that the chances of him doing something more sinister to get back at her were higher. Most likely when Derek had called her earlier to say that he would be coming, it had been a way to disarm her, to fool her so that she thought that he was the only one who would be showing up.
With her luck, the next time she saw him, it would be in a courtroom, and in the diner while she was waiting for him, the person who would come would not be him, but it would be one of his legal representatives. Back at Haven, she had stood in the side-lines and watched his uncle do something similar. There had been a girl.
One of the janitors, and Sebastian Haven had taken a liking to her. And the girl had not liked him back. When he had tried to force a kiss. The girl had fought back, succeeding in clawing at his face, for that tiny scratch across his eyelid, Sebastian Haven had ruined that poor girl.
He had dragged her through so many legal proceedings that she had ended up homeless. A state that she would most likely have stayed in had Derek not intervened after things had calmed down. He had made Emily track her down and then he had set up a meeting. At the end of it, the girl had been taking what little belongings she had and been moving out of the city. It was an exile, to be honest, but she had been so glad to at least be able to have somewhere where she would land on her feet that she had gone willingly.