The CEO's Secret✔️

21: The Regret

September 2010

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Katie felt numb. Her eyes became dull, losing their sparkle after they set their sights on the contents of Vinny's pockets. The air was knocked out of her and it took her a moment to be able to take a breath. Her head had told her to believe Colin but her heart needed proof, and she had certainly gotten it then. She stood there in her bedroom on her own, left speechless as she stared down at the two or three little baggies she had taken from her boyfriend's jacket.

She knew it wouldn't take long for Vinny to be finished his shower, the bathroom was just down the hall so she should be expecting him soon enough. Katie suddenly felt fear wash over her, she wasn't sure she was quite ready for a confrontation. Many thoughts filled her head, different scenarios that she judged for the best choice because she was frozen, she had no idea what to do.

Maybe it would be better to just tell him to leave and not speak to him again, or maybe she did need to talk to him before she broke things off. She could hear the bathroom door opening and footsteps, panic consumed her. Her eyes welled with tears, that was the first thing he noticed when he entered the room. The second was the contents in her hand.

Their eyes latched onto each other and for a moment, nothing was said, nothing needed to be said. But then, the moment passed and Katie finally spoke.

"Why was this in your pocket Vinny?" he had never heard her voice sound so vacant and broken before. It surprised him but then his walls came up, he was more concerned about her fishing through his things than how disappointed she looked right then.

"What the fuck are you doing going through my stuff?" His tone was stone cold and harsh to her ears. She could tell he was angry, but she was too.

"I asked you first."

"Give me those. They aren't for me." He snatched the baggies out of her hand, he was meeting with someone later who needed them.

"Is this what you do? You aren't really a tailor, are you? You've been lying the entire time- god I'm so stupid."

"You weren't supposed to see those." His voice trailed off as he spoke, he stuffed the baggies back into his jacket pocket and went to the other side of the room to find his clothes.

"Well I did. Now answer me." She demanded. He put his pants on and buckled his belt, never once looking at her.

"It's really none of your business Katie-"

"None of my business?" she asked in vexation. "I'm your girlfriend Vinny. I deserve to know who you really are?"

"I'm still the same person Katie." He sighed.

"You've been lying to me this entire time, for months about what you do." She was beginning to visibly become more upset by the minute but she refused to allow any sadness to come through in her voice, only anger.

"Why does it matter what I do?"

"You're some sort of drug dealer, I can't be with someone like that." She exclaimed in irritation.

"Now how did you figure all that out by just looking through my pockets?" he was suspicious and knew that she must have found out from someone else.

"It all makes sense now." She mumbled, but never replied to his question because she didn't want to tell him that the only reason she even began looking through his things in the first place was because of the things Colin said the day before. Emily had thought there was something off about him in the beginning, she had told Katie to be careful but it was only then that she remembered her friend's warnings.