Be Mine - Completed

Chapter 26

"I can't fucking believe it. I still can't wrap my head around it. Who the hell does he think he is?!" Penny ranted, pacing around the living room.

"Have you talked to him since it happened?" Penny effectively answered Viv's question and silenced her with a glare. Viv and Alice exchanged a glance while trying to figure out how to go about this conversation.

"Pen, hon, it's been almost a week. He's been blowing up your phone and he's even come over here a few times. I think you owe it to him to at least hear him out." Alice said cautiously, not quite sure what reaction she'd get from Penny this time. This was far from the first time they'd had this conversation and every time they did Penny reacted differently.

"I don't owe him shit." Penny bit out, flopping down on the couch. "I'm sorry, I know you're right. Like, logically, I know that I should hear him out and everything. But my logical brain is not taking over right now. Every time I think of talking to him, I remember what he said to me. I remember how he tried to tell me who I can and can't talk to and control me. It's just so aggravating."

"I know and I understand. That was a really fucked up thing for him to do." Viv sighed, sending Penny a sympathetic smile. "But he's done so much good for you. At least talk to him, maybe you can salvage the friendship."

"I can try, but this firmly cements my thoughts that nothing romantic is going to happen. I can't be with someone who becomes controlling like that, even if it is just when angry and even if he doesn't mean it. I just couldn't be happy in a relationship like that."

"How did we get to this place?" Jules sighed, throwing her head back on the couch. "You had two seemingly perfect guys just last week, and now suddenly both of them suck."

"I don't even want to think about my secret admirer. That guy still gives me the creeps." Penny shuddered, unable to shake the uneasy feeling that has been a constant cloud over her head since it settled there over a week ago.

"Have you heard anything from the FBI Agent?" Viv questioned, looking out the window as though she was going to see him standing there and immediately know who it was.

"Unfortunately, no. I just want them to tell me they caught the bastard so I can breathe easy and feel okay again. I feel like I'm constantly looking over my shoulder and waiting for the worst to happen. I've barely been sleeping knowing that he's been in here before."

"I know they changed the locks, but I still don't feel safe." Jules muttered, leaning her head on Alice's shoulder. The girls all nodded in agreement, letting silence fall over them as they got lost in their own thoughts.

He listened to their conversation, hearing about how unsafe Penny and her friends felt. He couldn't give a damn about her friends. In fact, he thinks they should feel scared. They're so undeserving of Penny and her friendship, they should be scared that soon Penny will realize it. How can she be so blind to everything he's done for her? He ran his hands through his hair, pulling on the ends to avoid yelling.

"This isn't fair." He muttered, clenching and unclenching his fists over and over. "I've done so much for her."

He left her apartment when he realized they weren't going to continue their conversation. All Penny had talked about lately was how scared she was and how upset she was, and she couldn't seem to understand how all of this was done for her. He had to show her, he had to make her see. As he walked away from her apartment, he took one final look back, knowing that this was his last shot. He had to do something huge to make her understand that he was the only one worthy of her and the only one willing to do anything and everything for her. He had to get it through to her that everything he had done was for her and she should be appreciative.