Chapter 38
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that I’m not
I’m so infuriated with myself wed all those par wurking for him while pining for a man who didn’t even know existed
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I hate what in me, but damn it, I hate that’s now the one feeling guilty as if I’ve done something wrang
The asked me to stay away and I did fast that ||
Toiminte sälku out in his Linde League uniform and I smile. You ready to pu?“||
He nods in an over exagerated way. “Ub hubs.“||
“Lucy,” I call “We’re leaving, honey“]
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I throw our hag of marks over my shoulder. I just need to get on with it||
1 tap my foot as I wall for Deb to answer her phone. Rang ring, ring ring!]
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The crowd cheers and I pretend to be excited. The very last place I want to be today is at Little League
(on with it, I’m freaking the hell out||
I can’t prin
You’ve reached Deborah, Jeave a message.||
*Call me urgently,” I whisper in the phone. The crowd all cheers a and I push the phone into my ear to try and cancel the noise. ‘Shif’s gone down
had shot.” I hang up in a rush. “Where the hell is she?” Debbie is the only person who knows the whole story
“Where is she?” i dial |
Ther number
“Whats wrong?” She answers first ring||
“Thank god “Island. “Taruar me,” 1 squeeze past the other parents who are sitting in the stand Tacuse e.” I need to get away from everyone so I can talk privately
“Tin away for the wedding ”
“Oh gut i nompletely forgot” I drag my hand through my hair. “Sorry to internopt.“||
“Gabriej turtied up at my house silence ||
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“Gabriel whor
“Gabriel Ferrara,” I snap as my eyes bulge from their sockets. “What Gebiet is there?”
“Oh fuck.”
“He knows?” she whispers in a panic. “How does be
“What happened?“”
“We were leaving to go to ballet and I had toast hanging out of my mouth and then be turned up and I knew that he knew and I cried and then Dum went into mrazy guard dog protection mode and I thought Gabriel won going to kill him.”
fol. Vioder, Shat, this is Lat. This it really, really bad.”
I piach the bridge i my nose as I listen. “You think?“”
you going to do?”
“I don’t know, he was furious and the left and
Land then?
“I googled him and he’s getting married soon.”
Trown?”
“I dract know, some beautiful Italian hitch“,
“And then what?” the cuts me off.
Good, good riddaner, fuck off, insole, and leave us alone.”
“Why would he come here when he’s getting married?” I whisper angrily
Silence
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hear her brain ticking over.
mean it doesn’t make sense,” I stammer “Why now?” “oh she gasps as if having some kind of revelation.
“When“]
He wants in
s to buy you.” “What?” I frown.
The wants to ensure you never talk so that his new wife never finds out about his illegitimate children.”
That idea rolls around in my brain, that doesn’t sound like him. “I don’t know“]
“Think about it, why else would he be coming now? How would he have found out now if he didn’t know all along?”
My eyes widen. “You think he’s known at along?“||
“I don’t know, but this is fucking suspicious if you ask me.”
“What if he tries to take them?” I whisper as I begin to panic. “What if he wants custody?“|
“What if he takes me to court, I don’t have the money he does to pay for fancy Imwyers.”
“He won’t,” she says. “Trust me, he’s coming to make sure you never talk.
“You think?”
rakay, Violet Krion, Panicking is not going to help You are their mother, he can’t show up here and take them, that’s not how it works. The
tourts are not going to give custody to an abwent workaholic.
I nod, feeling a little better. “You’re right.||
“He didn’t want to see you again, he told you that point 1
point blank. You went to tell him and he refused to see you, you are not in the wrong here.”
save called him and let him know I was i
a pregnant. I knew it back then and I all know it now.”
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to be fine, Ver. Ill be home Tuesday”
Vkay “Lhang on the line, not wanting to get off the phone ||
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|ww.frei illuewing all the way hunk New York ||
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Happily oblivious to their mother’s miner barma ||
1’s Sanaday night, and I slon’t know what to do next. I harit brand a word from Gabriel since he let here yesterday morning!
1 glance on et at my two precious baldes lying top to toe on the couch, a blanket over them, so odlivious topverything. I need to make sure that’s larw it stays. Thury cammat be affected by any of this, I waist drag them thongh it||
I’ll call viabatri tomorrow and ask him to meri. This needs to be amicable between us. He’s getting inacted soon and die can move on
of their oven and live happily ever after in their penthouse in New York.||
need to make something absolutely clear with them from the beginning ||
These children are mine
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“Vome on, guys.” I pack up the school hunches and put them into their bags. “Let’s roll” Monday mornings are always hectic, but when you haven’t slept for two nights, they ate especially chaotic. I bundle everyone’s backpacks on their backs apud vee walk out the front door. I stop on the spot:||
A black ti
Cear is sitting in my driveway
The driver gives me a stifled smile and gets out of the car and stands beside it.||
Acting cool as a cucumber, I walk down the front steps and unlock any car. “pump in the rac, gunl
“Who’s that?” Dom as
“sty friend. Get in the car. I open the backseat door and wait as they climle in. I slam the door slabit and walk tower to the man. “Can I help you?“]
“Hello, Miss Codeman” He smiles. “My name is Penson, Em
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I strongly advise you to keep out of my business. My children have school today and will not be taking any sich tests. ||
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