Chapter 105
“Teodore, how many times did you refuse to listen to what I said? And this one time, you choseto listen? Arketá! I am Greek. You know the temper we Greeks have. I never wanted you to leave.”
I felt as if I’d been punched in the chest. “You never…?” I could have howled and torn my hair.
“But you ran out of the house, and I would not permit myself to look for you, no matter how your mother pleaded with me. Pride, eh?”
“You brush it off to pride?” Wills’s face was flushed. I’d never seen him look so furious, not even when he’d confronted me after I had broken up with him over his answering machine. “Do you have any idea what your words did to Theo? What they cost him? He—”
I nudged him, and when I had his attention, I shook my head. My family didn’t know that for twelve years I’d had to sell my body in order to survive, and I didn’t want them to ever know that. Better they thought whatever it was they thought.
Wills shut up, but I could see he was still pissed.