Page 141 of Embracing the Change

“I know who he was, which is another reason why I waited for you to get home.”

Jamie’s head ticked.

“It was Chester Lynch,” I announced.

Jamie’s entire body went still as a statue.

So his “The fuck?” was tight.

“He said something about me thinking I can be Drusilla’s mom, you thinking you’re her dad, then he made a threat. That’s all he got out before Arnold pulled him away.”

“What threat did he make?”

I shook my head. “Something like, ‘you’ll learn.’”

“You’ll learn what?”

I shook my head again. “I don’t know. He said very little. Arnold was there in a flash. And I was surprised to even see him, so much so, I was paying scant attention to what he was saying.”

“Are we phoning the police?” Alyona asked.

Jamie looked to her. “Yes. Can you take care of that?”

“Right away,” Alyona said, and dashed off.

“Jamie,” I snapped.

He looked down at me. “What?”

“It was Dru’s biological father.”

“And…he attacked you. Arnold said he threw you up against a building, which, sweetheart,”—he came to sit next to me and took my hand—“you didn’t answer my question. Are you okay?”

“I was just shocked. He didn’t hurt me.”

“Fucking fucker,” he bit off, but lifted my hand and kissed the back of it.

He then put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me to his side as he settled us both back into the couch.

“I’ll handle Dru,” he declared. “But we have to make a complaint. It needs to be on file in case he intends any more of his bullshit.”

That possibility didn’t thrill me, not making the complaint, not Lynch having more antics up his sleeve.

But I couldn’t dwell on it when there were other priorities.

“How are you going to handle Dru?”

He looked down at me. “Tell her what happened.”

I stared up at him. “Won’t that upset her?”

“She hasn’t seen him since she was five,” he shared. “She calls me Dad because I’m her dad.”

“But—”

“Nora, honey,”—he pulled me closer—“she knows what kind of man he is, and if she was here, she’d be right with me, telling you to report it to the police.”

“It will still upset her.”

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