Page 82 of Imperfections Forbidden
“Nick!”Her eyes shift around me nervously, like she’s looking to see someone else.
“I guess I’m not the person you expected to see?”I take a good look at what she’s not wearing.“Where are the rest of your clothes?”All she has on is an open sleep shirt, her bra and panties.
“What are you doing here?”
I don’t wait for her to invite me in, I know she probably won’t.I walk past her into the apartment.She closes it and walks past me.
“You fucked him, didn’t you?”I’m not asking a question.I don’t care how upset she gets.She needs to put some damn clothes on.What the hell is she thinking spending the night with that guy?
“I’m not even going to acknowledge that question with an answer.That’s none of your business.”
“Isn’t it?I came here to see you, and this is what I see.”I look around the room, which is reeking of alcohol, and everything she’s not wearing.“You need to put some goddamn clothes on, that’s the first freaking thing you need to do before you answer the door.”I didn’t come here to argue but what the hell is she doing?I can’t believe she would sleep with him, again.No!I don’t want to believe it.
She folds her hands around her waist to close her shirt.“Don’t come in here and tell me what to do.We are not together.I don’t need you to come into my home and tell me what’s appropriate for me to do.”
“What the hell are you doing?You think having sex with Matt is going to help you forget about me?He’s not half the man I am.If you’re going to sleep around, you can do better than that.If you sleep with trash, you’re gonna wake up smelling like it.”
She spins around, one of her hands covering her mouth.Turning back around, she drops her hands at her sides, her eyes shining bright with her anger.
“Is this what you came here for?What do you want from me, Nick?You came here for something.Do you want to be my boyfriend, or to be friends with extra, added perks like me and Matt, or just sleep with me like you did with my sister?”
She drops her shirt to the floor and walks up to me in her bra and panty.“Come on, Nick, tell me what you want.Matt did and I gave it to him.I really gave it to him good.”
She’s playing games with the wrong fucking man.I lose my temper, grab her by her forearm and yank her against my chest.“Put your damn clothes on!”I say between clenched teeth, chest heaving in my anger.She tries to pull her arm free, but I hold on tight.Both of our eyes flash bright with our anger, and you can almost see sparks flying off the both of us.
“Don’t tell me what the hell to do, Nick.You don’t have the right to tell me anything.”She jerks her arm out of my hand so violently there are marks where my fingers dragged.“If I want to get drunk and sleep with every man in this building, I can and I will.After all, you get to sleep with whoever you want to without regard to anyone else.When you do it, you’re just another man living his life, so why is it so different for me?”
“No one wants to make a slut a wife.From where I’m standing, you’re acting like one.”
The tears roll down her cheeks, and I’m instantly sorry.Damn, this wasn’t supposed to happen.Seeing Matt… her coming to the door practically naked, talking about giving him what he wanted, pushed all the wrong fucking buttons in me.
“Cat, I’m sorry.”
She wipes the tears away with the back of her hand furiously and brushes a lock of her hair out of her face.“Thank you.You can leave now.”
“Cat, I don’t want to leave here like this.”
“You know what I want?”She holds her fisted hand in the middle of her chest like she’s choking, gasping for air.“You want to know what I want?”
“Anything, what?”
“I want a man who didn’t fuck my sister and get her pregnant!”She screams every single word at me across the room.“That’s what I want, can you give that to me?”
The one thing I can never give to her.If I could take it all back, I would.
“I didn’t think so.I’m over this shit, get the fuck out.”
She goes to her room, slams the door and shuts me out completely.I’m fucked!
Ava comes out of her room at the same time I send a chair flying across the room with my foot.“I need to talk to her.”
“I think you’ve both said enough.You should leave.You have murder in your eyes, and I’m afraid neither one of you are in control of yourselves.”
“What?”I swing my head around and look at her.“I’m not going to hurt anyone.Especially not Cat.”
“I would like to think so, but these days have been hard and you’re not yourself.”
She rubs her hand across my shoulder when she tilts her head to the side and looks into my face.
