Page 29 of My Karmic Destiny

The door snicks closed, and I wonder if I fucked it all up with my friends because I was greedy and wanted to finally have a chance at love in my life.

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THE TALK

DANTE

“We need to talk,” Tessa says as she pulls me into my room and away from Evan in the hallway. My stomach drops so fast it nearly falls right out of my ass.

This is it. The breakup.

She has chosen Evan.

I should have known I wouldn’t be enough for her. At first, she resisted me. She thought I wouldn’t want her, but she was all I could think about once I met her.

Tess is so much better than me. She’s practically a goddess in her own right.

What could she see in me? Besides my good looks, a trim body, and a calling to bestow upon her tons of orgasms, what do I bring to the table?

Perhaps this is my karma at play. I was a fuckboy, running from one woman to another. Now, I get to feel the pain from theother side. I’m being left behind as she samples all life has to offer.

She deserves it. She deserves everything. I’d do anything to make her happy, including letting her go with grace if she no longer desires to be with me.

Tessa saved all of us. She helped vanquish a malevolent goddess. She’s survived more than I’ve ever had to go through.

“So, it’s over? Just like that?” I ask, and fuck, do I sound pathetic. Normally, I would have blown a girl off and moved on by now. I would have never tried to understand what I did wrong. How I might make it better. “I don’t even get a chance to fix my mistakes?”

“What?” Tessa steps closer, gives me a hug, then caresses my face. “What’s going on here?”

“You tell me.” I point to the hallway, where Evan is probably eavesdropping.

She sighs and rubs her face. “Explain to me what that nonsense was in our text exchange today.”

Nonsense? “What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

“You made it sound like I was cheating on you,” she accuses, hurt clearly ringing in her voice.

“Are you hooking up with Evan?”

“Are you serious?” she huffs and pulls away. “No. I’m not, and I don’t like that you think I’m the kind of person who would do that.”

“Then why did the guys suggest something was going on between you?”

“I told you. I thought they were messing with me.” She bites her lip and glances at the door. “But now, I’m not sure what to think.”

I resist the urge to shout and throw a tantrum. That would be such a prickly dude thing to do. No, I’m going to have a real and mature talk about all this. If I don’t understand why thishappened, then I don’t know how I could live with all of them otherwise. I’d have to ask Karma for a transfer.

“While we’re talking about it, I don’t like you fucking with me and saying I should date them.” Tessa grumbles. “Don’t say stuff like that, especially when you obviously don’t mean it.”

“What?” I shake my head and try to remember if I said anything that could be misconstrued as that. “I didn’t say to date them.”

“Yeah, well, you said a lot more than that… you told me to fuck them and not talk to you about it or let you catch wind of it.” Her anger flares again. “Who says shit like that?”

“Not me,” I say with dead seriousness.

That stops her from her pacing. “What do you mean you didn’t say that? I have the damned texts.”

Tessa pulls out her phone, scrolling and clicking on and off the messages. “What the actual fuck is going on? They’re missing. Your texts are gone… everything after you apologized for last night.” She holds the phone up to me. “Where did it go?” She looks at me like I worked some magic to erase them.

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