Page 139 of Mile High Ex's Dad
I watch the door close behind him, then look back at Maksim.
He says, “That looked healthy.”
“It wasn’t.”
“No,” he says. “It very much wasn’t.”
I sit down again.
Maksim waits a second, then says, “All right. Continue.”
I rub a hand over my face. “He cornered her last night outside her room,” I say. “Drunk. Put his hands on her.”
Maksim’s expression changes at once. “She told you?”
“No. I saw it. I pulled him off her.”
He nods once, very slowly. “And after that?” he asks.
“After that she and I…” I stop.
Maksim lifts a brow. “You and she what?”
“We complicated matters further.”
“That’s one way to say it.”
I ignore him again.
He studies me for a moment. “And the child?”
I know what he’s asking.
“I don’t know,” I say. “She still hasn’t told me.”
“But you think it might be yours.”
“Yes.”
Maksim nods slowly. “And you told Alina that if Sienna leaves, the wedding doesn’t happen.”
“Yes.”
“Because she’s useful?”
“No.”
He waits.
I say it because at this point there’s no point not saying it. “Because I can’t seem to bear the thought of her being out of my sight in this house.”
The room goes quiet after that.
Maksim doesn’t smile. He doesn’t mock me. He just sits there for a second, taking it in.
Then he says, “That’s worse.”
“Yes.”
