“I saw the man who robbed the boutique,” she explained.
“What?”
“He’s Gino’s friend.”
Kason had the look of murder in his eyes. “You’re fucking kidding me?”
She shook her head.
His eyes grew softer. “Did he hurt you?”
“No.”
Kason’s eyes clouded again as he glared at me. “You knew, and you didn’t fucking tell me?”
I had no time to react before he charged at me and tackled me to the ground. I went down hard on my back with his weight on top of me.
“Stop!” Giselle cried as I struggled to fight him off.
His fist shot out, but I somehow dodged the punch and avoided more punches.
“Dude. Knock it the fuck off!” I said, holding him at arm’s length.
“Get off him!” Giselle cried as she grabbed Kason from behind.
“Careful, G!” I said. “I got this.”
“Stop fucking talking to her!” He continued to try to punch me.
“Then stop trying to hit me!” I continued to hold him off.
“You lied to me!” Kason growled. “You’ve been fucking lying to me.”
I shoved him off, and he rolled onto his back. “Would you let us talk?” I said, out of breath and exasperated as I pushed myself to my feet.
He climbed to his feet, his eyes still shooting daggers at both of us.
Giselle jumped between us, pressing her palms to his chest. “Kason. You need to relax.”
“You called him, and he didn’t fucking tell me!” he yelled.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “We were going to tell you.”
“When? Next fucking year?”
“Kason, we know you,” Giselle explained. “You would’ve been on the first flight to Florida. We needed to figure it out first. It all came at me out of nowhere. I needed to process it.”
“So you called him?” His hand shot out in my direction as if I were a piece of trash.
“Dude. I’m the same person you trust with everything. Why am I suddenly not good enough to be that person for G, too?”
“Stop calling her that,” he said.
“You’ve got to know it’s always been her,” I continued. “My world’s revolved around her for as long as I can remember.”
Giselle looked to me, cocking her head and flashing me a sad smile.
“I can’t hear this right now,” Kason said. “Did you go to the cops?”