Chapter 29. Retail Therapy

“I will be going on a business trip to attend a seminar and an important meeting. I will be gone for 9 days tops,” Atticus spoke from beside me without lifting his eyes from his phone while eating with the other unoccupied hand.

“When?” I asked him

“Now,” He replied.

I wanted to ask him why he was telling me that he was leaving in a few minutes. He should have just kept it to himself.

It was on the edge of my tongue, yet I held it in the same way I had wanted to ask him if he was at Samantha’s place all the nights when he failed to come home.

Samantha had obliterated me with mockery two days ago. There was no hiding the first-hand embarrassment I felt throughout the lunch at Danielle’s place, especially since I had to sit opposite her and see her smug face glow with victory at the fact that she had rendered me useless with just a sentence that had way more effect on me than it should.

I didn’t know if he waited for my reply, which he wasn’t going