Dusty heard her sister's laughter coming from her daughter s room and she smiled as she walked to the bedroom to see what was going on.
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Caroline laughed as she watched her niece crawling on the floor and she picked up her cell phone, sighing when she didn't see any new messages.
"Still no word from Jason?" Dusty asked, walking in the room and picking Lennon up off the floor.
"No but I keep trying. I swear Dusty, I could kill Chris for this!"
"I know Linny, I know. Maybe it was for the best though because even though you said it was what you wanted, I could see the doubt in your eyes."
"I was just scared Dusty. Jason and I moved pretty fast and I was afraid that we were jumping the gun on getting married instead of waiting...I do love him though." Caroline told her sister, watching as Dusty sat down in the rocker with Lennon.
"Yeah but...was Chris right? Are you in love with him?"
"I honestly thought that I was in love with Jason."
"Until you saw Chris." Dusty said and Caroline nodded.
"That's another reason why I hate him for doing this to me. I thought that I was completely over him and had moved on until I saw him and he kissed me." Caroline stood up and walked over to her sister, leaning down to kiss Lennon on her forehead. "I'm going to go lay down for a while so we'll talk some more about this later, okay?"
"Alright, I'll see you then."
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Dusty had just sat down on the couch after finally getting Lennon asleep when the doorbell rang. She sighed and rolled her eyes as she got back up and walked over to the door, glaring at the person waiting on the porch. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Is Caroline here?" Chris asked, looking over Dusty's shoulder into the house.
"It's none of your fucking business if she's here or not. Haven't you done enough already?"
"Dusty please...if you won't let me talk to her then can I at least talk to you?"
"What makes you think that I have anything to say to you anymore than Caroline does?" Dusty snapped and Chris sighed.
"Please just let me explain things."
"Fine. Wait here a minute." Dusty closed the door, walked over and grabbed the baby monitor off the coffee table and made her way back over to the door. "We can talk out here on the porch." She said as she stepped outside and he nodded.
"Thank you Dusty."
"Don't thank me for anything yet...not until I hear what you have to say." Dusty sat down on one of the patio chairs and Chris sat down across from her.
"Fair enough I guess. I know that I made a mistake when I broke up with Caroline but you have to believe me Dusty...I still love her."
"You sure as hell have a funny way of showing it! What happened? Did your little bitch do everything to you that we tried to warn you she would?"
'You're married to Aleister and you've been backstage so I'm sure you heard all the gossip going around." Chris stated and Dusty nodded.
"She cheated on you with Ethan Carter and now that you're single again, you've decided that you want my sister back."
"No, that's not it at all. I was already planning on breaking up with her when it happened because she started talking about marriage and everything and it made me realize that the only woman I want to be with or ever think about marrying is Caroline."
"You really broke her heart Chris. I never thought that she was going to get over you and then she met Jason."
Chris scoffed and rolled his eyes. "A fucking accountant. Where the hell did she ever meet him?"
"The law firm that she worked for hired him to go over their books when they were told they were going to be audited. I don't like him and I never have but Caroline seemed to like him and he made her happy so I supported her. Now he won't even return her calls or texts because of what you did."
"Yeah, I admit that I went about that the wrong way but I just couldn't let her marry him...not when I'm the one she should be marrying."
"She says she hates you for what you did, you know." Dusty said and he sighed.
"I know that she might hate me right now but she just needs to see that I still love her and want to be with her. Will you help me?"
"How do you expect me to help you?"
"Talk to her...explain to her why I did what I did. Try and convince her to give me another chance or to at least hear me out."
"Honestly Chris? I can tell that you still love her but I'm not going to help you. This is all your fault, you fucked up and you need to be the one to fix it because I'm not going to do it for you." Dusty stated, getting up and walking into the house without another word. She saw Caroline sitting on the couch holding Lennon and she quickly shut the door. "How long have you been up?"
"Not long...what was he doing here?"
"He wanted to talk to you and when I told him no, he wanted to talk to me."
"About me I'm guessing." Caroline said, standing up and handing Lennon to her sister. "I hope you told him to go to hell."
"He wanted me to help him by trying to convince you to give him another chance or at least listen to what he has to say."
"Yeah...that's not happening. Will you be okay here alone with Lennon? I think I'm going to go somewhere and get a drink." Caroline stated, grabbing her purse and slinging it over her shoulder.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Aleister's going to be home soon anyway so go out and have fun but be careful, alright?"
"I will, don't worry. I'll see you later." Caroline hugged Dusty and kissed Lennon on top of the head before walking out of the house.