Divorced, But Not Broken
Divorced, but Not broken Chapter 127

I could f*****g feel the eyes that was staring at me when I spotted someone, a man with a hoodie, he was sitting on a bench further away when I gritted my teeth pissed off, oh that fucker! He had no idea who he was messing with when I walked up and quickly drew the revolver from my purse, clutching it hard in my hand when I walked up behind him and pressed the end unto the unknowing man that froze up feeling the cold steel that was right below his right ear.

"If you don't stop following me or my family, I'm going to kill you, got that?!" I was hissing it seeing the hard gulp the man made when I pressed the gun harder against his skin and made another hiss, he was lucky that we were in public or otherwise I would have killed him on the spot!

"Take it easy pretty, just put the gun away..." I gasped taking a step back, dropping the gun right from my hand when the man got up, turned around and quickly picked up the revolver, pushing it back his jeans and covering it with the hoodie before showing me the sweet kind eyes that always wanted to help but never really could.

"Tom!?" I said it not believing it and I hated myself so much that my heart felt the hard stab of disappointment, I wanted it to be Jonah and I knew it, why even deny the fact that I had wished with all my might that it was him standing before me and not his best friend that I still didn't know why he was here.

"Yeah.... Its me.... long-time no see, right?" he did a smile when I didn't know if I wanted to hit him or hug him, he was part of a life I had left behind, just buried and now he was here, standing outside the same f*****g store I was manager of. He had a beard now and he looked older, or maybe that was just the beard giving me illusion and was I imagining it, or did he put on some weight? not muscle like he was before, no he had gotten the slightest soft in his face and body it seemed. he was standing there and smiling, he still was waiting on me to say something.

"Look that good, don't I? the girls love this, and guys too, you have no idea how much compliments I get these days, oh and Ma says hi and that she is still going to give you a beating when you come back for leaving us...." He stopped talking, loosing that cheerfulness when I still didn't understand, come back? I had a life here, a real life that I shared with Buck and there were no f*****g mob guys that was trying to get to me or my baby.

"Thomas, I'm not coming back, you do understand that right? I love my fiancée and we are going to get married at the end of the summer, alright?" I was looking at him confused and sad, not even angry. It wasn't his fault, any of the shit that had gone down. He just was a part of a life that I didn't want back, couldn't have back after Kira.

"Oh, you don't know do you. Jonah divorced Shailene, something about her not being able to have kids and even his Ma agreed to that..." I was feeling sick to my stomach. so that was it then? Jonah wanted me back because I could fucking have kids with him!? what kind of a messed-up shit was that!?

"Alright, so why isn't he here then? Why isn't Jonah here and like I don't know.... see his only child?? No! instead he sent you like he always does so that you can tell me what a great guy he is! that he just needs some f*****g support! Well f*****g look at me Thom! where was my f*****g support when James tried to kill his daughter or didn't even have the balls to run away with me instead of just obeying Fiona like a f*****g bitch!?

"I'm here because of that Andrea, Jonah have always kept tabs on you and Kira, fuck he know everything, you job, your home and that redneck you are dating, marrying..." he stopped when I made a snort, yeah, I knew that too... he always did like to keep tabs on me, but always way too much of a coward to do something about it.

"Great, well if that's all... I have ice cream melting in the back of the car and ..." I was turning around when he stopped me, grabbing my wrist gently making me frown, no! I was done listening to his shit, telling me Jonah was still out there, I didn't care! "James is here." He said it cold when I stopped struggling and he dropped my hand, he was fucking what!? My eyes wide in horror when his otherwise kind ones met mine, they were serious, hard, dangerous. Just like that time we had talked about Brandon, the kid that Jonah had almost killed.

"No.... no.... no...." I was holding my mouth over my hand, no! this was my worst nightmare, James was clearly dangerous when he wanted to be and he was good at hiding it too, not like Jonah that just had this aura that screamed danger and you saw it from a mile ahead.

"Yes. I hate to tell you Pretty, but I volunteer for this, bringing you back home, seeing that I know that you wouldn't come along with some other goon Jonah was sending...." He did care about me, always did the idiot and here he was telling me that I had no choice but to pick up Kira and come back to him, because of a psychopath that was hunting me down!

"No." I looked back up at him, my eyes hard and determined. I was not running from James, Buck had been taking me to the shooting range and I was good at it, far better than I ever believed to be, I was not taking Kira away from the only home she ever known to drop her in some fucking mansion with a father she didn't know and a grandmother that wanted her dead when she was born.

"What??" he made a surprised face like he thought that I would just jump from joy hearing that Jonah had divorced homeland, it didn't make a difference for me, I told him that night that I hated him when I kicked him out of the car, and I meant it. Every fucking word.

"I said no. I am not going to run off just because of James, the only reason Jonah is sending you here is because he is a fucking pussy not even trying to win me back on his own! I love Buck, I really do!" I was panting the slightest when he was scratching the red- brown coloured beard really trying to figure out what he was going to tell Jonah when he got back without me and Kira.

"Oh, he is not going to like this pretty... not at all... he is different these days you know? like a fucking switch that flicked when you took of with Kira, he isn't the nice guy he was before... I don't know if he is going to send out more guys to come and get you..." I made a gulp from the serious words, of that I had no doubt, I really didn't believe that he was happy with Shailene and the part of him that was probably died when he realised that I wasn't sticking around, couldn't f*****g refuel with me to make it with her. "I don't care, tell you what? The next guys that come and try to take me or my baby, I'm going to kill them, f*****g point blank." My voice dry in the end when he made a smirk, oh god I hadn't missed that at all, me telling him that I would kill people and he just smirked, it was a fucked-up world that I had lived in.

"Yeah yeah... I hear you......but just remember one thing here Pretty, she is his baby too and ... let me just put it like this, I don't think at this point anything will stop him from trying to get you guys back, willingly our not..." I made a gasp hearing that because I knew that every word was true, if Jonah had made up his mind to have me back, have Kira in his life, there was little to nothing that was going to be able to stop him, me the least.

"You changed too Tom..." I said it sad when he made a bigger smile like he knew that and he couldn't help it, I guess nobody of us could at this point.

"We all have changed Andrea...." He said it more seriously than anything I had ever seen him be and I knew that he hated this, hated to be this guy that hurt people and still he was doing it, all for Jonah. “Listen.... I know that I'm not supposed to say this but... you want to come and have dinner, if you pretend that you know nothing about hurting people and of Kira's real father, in fact, don't bring him up at all..." I said the last part begging him when he made a wink and a nod like he could do that and I finally gave into what I wanted to do since I saw him, I hugged him hard, feeling the tears that was coming down my face, I missed him. he was my friend and I had missed him so much just like his parents and brothers. "Let's go than pretty, let me see the new family of yours..." he made a chuckle when I was still holding onto his side, walking over the parking lot, this was going to be hard to explain to Buck, but he wouldn't kick Tom out, never. He was a real nice guy like that. "Hey guys, this is Tom a friend of mine and he is coming over to eat with us, alright?" I said it when the three heads turned in shock still seeing me holding onto the big man that was Thom when he did one of his great laughs and I swear I saw Sophia blush from head to toe over her light tanned skin and the two boys just staring at me like I was crazy, so that was going to be fun!