Chapter 299: Second Meeting
After dropping a bombshell on your mother. Revealing to her that you had been suffering from insomnia since you were twelve.
That it had never been cured. That you had been lying to her the entire time.The proper thing to do would be to stay with her.
To reassure her that it was not her fault.
Letting her know that it was in no way an insinuation that she was a bad mother, for not having noticed something like that. Derek did not know anyone who had gone through a similar situation to his. But he assumed that if there was.
That would be the standard procedure that they would follow, to handle the problem.
But unfortunately for him, things were different.
Derek had never intended to tell his mother about his sleeping problem. Now he had, not because he felt that he was ready. But because his pain had been too great for him to keep holding on to such a toxic secret.
He’d had to let it go, to show his mother just how much she had cost him with her interfering.
Meddling in business that did not need her input. But instead of staying with his mother after such a revelation, Derek was in the shower. Trying to wash off the stench of alcohol that was clinging to him.
If it would not have made him look even worse in front of Emily’s mother. He would have just rushed over to the apartment the moment that he had learned what his mother had done.
But his first impression had been ruined. Emily’s mom thinking he was nothing more than a heartbreaker.