Chapter 7 - Lauren Was Furious When She Learned Where I Went
My phone rang before I even left the parking lot.
Lauren.
“Tell me you didn’t go to his gym.”
I was quiet.
“Dad!”
“I went.”
“Oh my God.”
“I didn’t hit him.”
That confused her.
“What?”
“He hit me.”
She went completely silent.
Then:
“Are you okay?”
“Yes.”
“Why would you let him do that?”
“I didn’t let him. He made a choice.”
She understood after a moment.
“The cameras.”
“And witnesses.”
Lauren started crying.
Not because I had been hit.
Because for months she had been terrified that Dustin could always control the story.
At the gym, surrounded by people who respected him, he had attacked someone who wasn’t attacking him.
Nobody could blame Lauren for that.
Nobody could say she provoked it.
Nobody could call it a private relationship misunderstanding.
It was Dustin.
In public.
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Unable to control himself.
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