“Yes, you will,” I whisper thickly.
I know he will be here, but the question is whether there will be a wedding.
“As for whatever is troubling you, it’ll pass. Remember, every problem or obstacle is never as scary as it appears. Once you overcome it and look back on it, you’ll realize how silly you were being. Okay?”
I nod.
My phone pings just as the nurse appears in the doorway.
“It’s time for his medicine,” she says.
“Okay.” Peering atDadu, I say, “I’ll be back.”
“Go spend time with your mom. She’ll say I hogged you all to myself.”
I chuckle, shaking my head as I rise from the seat. Out in the hallway, I pull out my phone to check the message I received, thinking it’s from Seth. A foreboding sensation runs down my spine when I read Nathan’s name.
NATHAN: You shouldn’t have sent Kian.
The feeling intensifies as I frown at his text. He’s the last person I would send Kian to. In fact, I don’t want them anywhere near each other until I come clean to Kian.
ME: What are you saying?
His reply is instant.
NATHAN: He came to see me at my office today.
No! Bile rises in my throat.
NATHAN: Had quite an interesting chat.
I can hear his smug and taunting voice in my head. Running to my bedroom, I ring him up. Dread coils in my stomach as he purposely lets it ring once, twice.
He picks up on the fourth ring.
“What did you do?” I hiss, keeping my voice down.
“I don’t even get a hello now?”
My hand shakes. “What have you done, Nathan?”
“I warned you what would happen if you went back to him.”
“Nathan! What. Did. You. Do?”
“He knows you’re a stalker.”
My world tilts on its axis as my worst nightmare comes to fruition.
Nathan sneers, arrogant and threatening, “I’m telling you again. End it with him, or the next time he comes my way, he’ll know how deep your treachery runs.”
The line goes dead.
Chapter Six
Iris
The phone clatters to the ground.
