Risking Fate (Mitchell Family #4)(48)
Author: Jennifer Foor

At least ten photos of me and Heather were spread out for me to see. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Clearly, they were of me, but I didn’t remember doing any of it. I crouched down on the floor and buried my hands into my face.

Conner sat behind me and was quiet at first. I guess he was speechless at the f**king mess I’d made of my life. “She’s gone. She’s f**king gone.” I crushed one of the pictures up and threw it, before turning back to him.

Conner just stared at the table. “This was sitting on top of the pictures.” He handed me the folded piece of paper and ran his hands through his hair.

I know he expected me to read it out loud, but there was no way in hell I could do that when I knew my life was over.

My hands were shaking and I could feel the burning in my eyes as I glanced over at the horrible photos.

Ty,

You were the one who really knew me. I gave you what I never gave anyone before and that was my whole heart. I promised to love you and be faithful to you for the rest of our lives. I thought you knew how much those words meant to me, how much you meant to me.

Instead, you snuck behind my back, for God only knows how long, carrying on a secret life with that whore, while I carried your babies and planned for our future. Did you ever love me, or was it always about Bella?

I’ll never forgive you for this. I will never forgive you for making me love you so much, only for you to hurt me like this. Did you think I wouldn’t find out? That you could live a secret life and then come home to me?

You were my world and all I wanted was to give you more children, but now I want nothing with you. I can’t even think about you, and I definitely can’t see you. Those pictures are forever burned into my mind. There’s no talking your way out of this. We’re done, Ty. Please leave me alone. Please give me time to get over this pain.

I know you love Bella and I promise that I will do everything I can to let you see the kids, all three of them, but I can’t do it right now. Stay away from Kentucky. Forget whatever it was you think you felt for me.

Marrying you was the worst decision of my life.

Miranda

I handed the paper to Conner and got up to start pacing around the room. Nothing could change this. My family was gone, just like that. I’d lost them forever, over something that I never wanted to happen. She would never forgive me, not after seeing those pictures.

I walked back to the table, and kneeled down in front of all of them. Tears poured out of my eyes and I felt Conner’s hand on my shoulder. “It’s goin’ to be alright. I’m goin’ to help you get her back Ty.”

“What the f**k are you talking about? Have you seen these pictures? She’s gone, Man. She’s never going to forgive me. I don’t even forgive myself.” The pictures made me sick, just looking at them. The last one I looked at had Heather sitting on my face.

I cringed.

Conner looked at the pictures and started pointing at certain ones. “Look at these, Ty. There isn’t one picture where you’re touching her with your own hands. She is doing everything, in fact look at this one.” He held one up and between my burning tears, I saw that my eyes were hazed over in the picture. “I bet you a million dollars you never even had sex with this bitch.”

I shook my head and started dialing Miranda’s number again. Of course it went to voicemail. I threw it up against the wall. “Even if we could prove that, Miranda will never believe me. I lied to her. I kept it from her. How the hell did she even get these things?”

He grabbed my arm and made me look his way. “You need to calm down. I know my sister. She may be mad, hell she may even hate you right now, but she also loves you more than life itself. What you two have is somethin’ special. She can’t really think you’re this guy.” He held up the pictures. “You don’t even have time to be this guy.”

“I f**ked it all up, all over papers to be Izzy’s real father. God, Conner, what am I going to do without them? What am I going to do?”

After I put my phone back together, I called Miranda’s phone over and over, with no answer. I left her several messages, without really talking about what was going on. I hated that she was driving so far, being so pregnant. I wanted this to all be a nightmare, but it was a reality.

The only woman that I ever truly loved more that life itself, hated my guts. I’d broken her heart into a million pieces and she was never going to give me another chance.

I ran to the door, before I even realized what was happening. “Ty wait! Where are you goin’?”

I threw my keys down on the countertop . “Drive me to the airport, Conner. If I leave in the next hour, I can beat her there.”

“She’s not goin’ to want to talk to you.”

“I don’t care. She needs to know the truth, even if she doesn’t want me anymore, she needs to know that I never wanted it to happen. I would never have done that to her or to our family. She’s all I want, she’s all I’ll ever want.”

“I get it Ty, but right now, she’s a mess. Hell, she couldn’t even tell me what she was plannin’. Just give her a few days. She’ll miss you and want to talk. Come on Ty, she was willing to trust Tucker again, she’ll forgive you. I will help you.”

I shook my head and rubbed my hands over my face. “I can’t just stand here waiting. I have to see her. I have to be close to her. I need to see my wife.”

“Fine, I’ll take you. When things get worse, don’t say I didn’t tell you so. I know my sister and she needs time.”

“She needs to know that those pictures were not my doing. I threw up when that bitch tried to kiss me. Do you really think I’d let her put her f**king pu**y in my face? You’re a f**king guy, and I know that you wouldn’t do that shit to someone you hated. I’ve done that to two people in my life and you know both of them. That is the picture that broke your sister’s heart. She needs to know it ain’t real.”

Conner threw his hands in the air and walked out of the house. I ran into my bedroom and grabbed a change of clothes before meeting him in his truck. For most of the drive, we said nothing. We both continued to call Miranda’s phone with no answer. Eventually, her voicemail was full and we couldn’t even leave a message.

“I need to call Van.”

Conner turned to look at me. “You really think you want to talk to her about this? Isn’t Heather the one who Van caught you with? You really think she’ll believe you?”