Terrance
My eyes burned a hole in the back of Griffin’s head as he walked out the door. Who the hell did this guy think he was? He stood in here like he ran some stuff . Honestly, he needed to be brought all the way down.
I looked over at Daniela. The look on her face read guilt. She couldn’t even look me straight in my face. Why? I didn’t know. She still had Alaia in her arms but she eventually put her down.
“Go play in your room for a little bit while I talk to Terrance. When I’m done we can finish the movie. Okay?” she said to her before Laia ran off to her room.
When she was gone, I took a seat on the couch and sat back and watched as Daniea turned off the TV then took a seat on the other couch opposite of me. She sat there silently for a minute.
“What was that Daniela?”
“What do you mean?” she asked softly.
“The dude was in here parlaying like this was his house or something. What’s up with that? Y’all back together or something?”
“No. No. We are not back together.” She responded immediately while shaking her head.
“Then be real with me. What’s going on?” I asked.
“Nothing. Nothing is going on and nothing happened.”
I just looked at her for a minute before I shook my head and laughed bitterly.
“See, I didn’t even ask if anything happened so why do you feel the need to defend yourself? Why are you acting all guilty?”
She just looked down at her hands. I shook my head.
“I’m going to say this once, and once only Daniela: he broke your heart and I was the one there to help you put it back together. I’m not even sure if you’re over it but I have been waiting patiently for two years .Daniela Just because he decides he want to get in where he fit in again doesn’t mean you have to go along with it. That would be messed up.”
She just sat there silently.
“I’m going to leave you to think about that.” I said before I stood up. “Make a choice Daniela. I can only hope that you will make the right one.”
It was no secret that I was in love with Daniela. I’ve been in love with her for a long time. From the moment I met her, I wanted her. She was everything a man could ask for in a woman, or in a wife. So when Blake did what he did to her, although I hated seeing her hurt, it was my window of opportunity. In that moment, all I could do was be there for her but I have been in that same position for two years now. She is scared of committing to me and Blake was to blame for that and to be honest to myself I knew it was also because she wasn’t fully over him. I couldn’t say for sure that she was still in love with him but she definitely wasn’t over him. But I refused to wait anymore. I wasn’t going to allow him to step in and take what I’ve been building for two years now. I wasn’t having it.
“Tell Laia I’ll see her later.” I said before walked out the door and closed the door behind me.
Blake
I drove away from Daniela’s house and felt my anger starting to ease. I wasn’t going to let this irrelevant ass guy get me all riled up. I didn’t like his hands on Daniela or my daughter but he just didn’t know that his days with was numbered. I knew I was breaking her down and that I was only getting closer to getting my wife and my family back.
I wasn’t even going to worry about it. I was just going to let everything play out for itself. Call me cocky, but I trusted that Daniela would make the right decision.
