hapter 84
I stare at his lock, he can’t even look at me.
“And then I did, but when healed, I headed different. T’es not the sÁJA
gal anymore, Gabriel, and I don’t know how to get her luck, italike I’m dead inside.
This head drops.
“Tm sorry.” I whisper. “Thon’t hate me.
His head rises as if angered. “Touch!”
Iscrew up my face in tears and he walks through the bark door without looking back
The door chicks shut with a sharp snap. “I’m sorry.” I whisper to the empty rooms, “thut you have no one to blame but yourself.”
The alarm goes off seemingly ten minutes after I finally fell asleep, and I turn it off with force. I lie for a moment and stare at the ceiling as I try to collect my bearings
Did that actually happen last night, or did I dream the whole thing!
Ugh..I drag myself out of bed and walk into the bathroom to see the wild monster staring back at me
The homewrecker.
I’m not proud of myself or my actions on Saturday night, I should never have slept with him when I knew he had hopes for us. But in my defense i had told him time and again that I didn’t want anything with him going forward, he just didn’t listen
Saturday night was never planned, it just happened when he accosted me in the bathroom in the middle of the right.
It wasn’t exactly fucking romantic.
He knew exactly what he was doing, he used my physical attraction to him against me, made it impossible for me to stop. His fingers were already deep inside me before I could even think of a protest, by then my body had taken over from my brain. I will not take the blame for thes
No, this is on him.
I tie up my hair and turn on the shower. It’s going to be a long day. I’m exhausted already.
I put the lunchboxes into the schoolbags. “Come on, guys, we have to leave,”
Trall. “We’re going to be late.”
Lucia takes her schoolbag from the counter.
“Go and wait out the front. I’ll be out in a second.”
She walks out the from door. “,” she gasps excitedly. “Mom, Dad’s here.”
What?
I stick my head around the corner and can see him standing on the front porch.
Domande comes boundling down the stairs and runs to the front door. “Hello, my man,” Gabriel says to him,
Dom gives him a lopsided smile. “Hi.”
“I’ve come
ve come to take you to school today if that’s okay. I hate that I didn’t get to say goodbye to you both on the weekend
Dominic bites his bottom lip to hide his smile, and his eyes flick to mine. “Is that okay,
Mom
I walk out onto the front porch and am greeted with Gabriel Farrara in all his masculine glacy Gray power suit with crisp white shirt, dark freshly
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washed hair, and a jaw so square that it could cut glass. His aftershave has heen sent straight from Aphrodde herselli
“Hi” I say awkwardly
He rolls his lips and nods. “I’d like to take the children to school.”
“Of course.”
“And I’ll be picking them up and going back to my house for on early dinner. I’ll have them home around seven thirty. “I open my mouth to protest
“I return to New York tonight and won’t set them again until Friday when I return,”
The kids eyes flick to meet mine. “Can we go, Mom?” Lucia begs.
Even Dom seems excited
“Sure.”
Dom runs inside to get his schoolbag and Lucia kisses me goodbye and then walks down to Gabriel’s car to walt.
“Are you okay?” I ask him. “I know last night was awkward, but we really are better off as friends.”
“Don’t talk to 1947
My face falls “What, why
“Because I’m not interested in anything you have to say. He turns and walks down the steps to his car.
Dominic comes out with his little backpack on and kisses me goodbye.
“Have a good day, sweetheart.” I fake a smile.
I watch them get into the car and drive away, and just like that they’re gone with him. He’s going to get nasty, I can just feel it.
This could be the beginning of the end.
