Fighting for Love (Boston Love 2)

The girl chuckled. “Aah…hold on a second.”

I snapped my eyes over to Autumn, and her smile vanished.

I heard Finn ask who was on the phone. “It’s Rory,” the woman said.

Finn’s voice appeared on the other end. “What do you want, Rory?”

His voice sounded distant and cold.

“I was…I was wondering if I might be able to come over and talk to you.”

Silence.

“Or we could meet somewhere and talk.”

“You promised me.”

His words felt like a knife piercing my heart. “Finn, please let me explain.”

“I’ve never in my life opened my heart to someone like I did you. I loved you, and I thought you loved me.”

“I do love you! Do you not remember this past weekend? My note…I’ll always love you.”

Finn let out a gruff laugh. “That’s not what your father said.”

I sucked in a breath of air. “What do you mean?”

Finn let out a frustrated sigh. “I can’t do this, Rory. I trusted you with my heart, and you broke it. No, you didn’t just break it…you destroyed it. You fucking destroyed me. I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t care what you have to say.”

And with those words, he hung up. I stared straight ahead, my arm dropping to my side as tears burned my eyes.

“Rory? What happened?”

“He hates me,” I whispered.

Autumn walked up to me. “He doesn’t hate you. I read that letter he wrote to you. He’s hurt and angry, that’s all.”

I hit my father’s number. He sounded relieved when he answered the phone.

“Rory, are you okay?”

“You don’t get to ask me that question, Dad. Did Finn show up for his shift today?”

“Yes. After he walked into my office smelling like alcohol this morning, then proceeded to chew me out and demanded I tell him why you broke up with him.”

“What did you say?”

“I told him what I thought was the best thing to say.”

Fear gripped my chest. I closed my eyes and asked, “What. Did. You. Say.”

“I told him you only entertained this whole notion of being with him to be rebellious against me. That you agreed Friday night that the best thing to do would be to end this ridiculous affair you had going with him.”

Anger filled my entire body as my eyes snapped open. “I never said any of that. You lied to him. How could you lie to him?”

“Because you’re going to see that that boy was never going to be faithful to you, Rory. I know the type.”

I yelled into the phone, “You know nothing about Finn! Nothing! He is ten times the man you ever were.”