When Emily had accepted Derek's call and had agreed to let him come into the diner, not that she had any choice, she had thought that it was a way of alleviating her stress of ending things once and for all.
But now, it turned out to be quite the opposite.
As the hours passed with no sign of Derek Haven whatsoever, Emily's stress levels went higher and higher. Why would he call and not show up? Was he playing some sort of sick game with her?
One of those messed up ones that narcissists often played just to leave whoever it was that they were preying on at the moment, spinning, unable to form coherent thoughts because they were too busy trying to figure out what was going on. If so, then Emily wanted no part of it.
Derek could go jump off a cliff for all she cared.
Or maybe he was not playing games. What if some work thing had come up to stop him from showing up?
