Chapter 40
1 wait for him to say something, he doesn’t. He put sans there, shocked or perhaps he’s just mounting the ways in hurt me. He doesn’t need durianti already know it’s an infinite number ||
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ertion, Gabriel.”
His eyes rise in retinine, his hatred fo me dripping from his every cell
nih, and .‘ I roll my lips as I try to cromprise myself, Lean hardly see him through the tears. “You told me: ↑
a drop back to the carpet, lsis after is beginning to stage the hell out of me
“What was Tanggend to do?” I stammet. “You told me you didn’t want to see me ever again |
I watch him, waiting for the explosion, wolling for some type of reactions, even on vitraction is harder than this ||
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“Who knows?“||
rventually masks. “No.“||
“Nobiely, Hold ever your that they were conceived through IVF using donor sperm”
His eyes drop back to the carpet ||
Say something!
Gabriel Ferrata doesn’t do silence|||
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want anything from you, you don’t have in worry,” I stamaner. “You can live your life as normal, we will never bother you.“||
His dack eyes rise to meet mine, and this time they farker with fury
alts forward in bin chair. “Do you honestly think that you can keep my children from
Fear run through my system,
“I cannot believe. “His voice trails off as if stopping himself from riberating
Why is he and exploding? He’s acting weird and not of character, it’s very unsettling ||
“What were you going to say
sdd mine. “You are the most selfish person I have ever met” What?||
“You let your feelings for me betray your own children, preventing them from bring me to their father.” He swallows the lump in with emotion ||
“You have a
ume more childern, Galiciel,” I whilsper:||
la has chân to the sky in defiance as he sits forward, his anger returning Joud and clear. “Did you trally think I would never find out? The hairs on my back stand up ||
ghit the day you left me was your biggest betrayal,” be witspers |
You forced que away ||
“Just because I aliudrc’t want you never meant I didact want diena” Henneers ||
A knife straight through my heat. I stare at him through trans||
There’s the crabmel I know, Cold and hearties
“Heir to what is going ba happen,” he says in a cold and calentating voice. “Today I am sending dir around to your house, and they are having a paternity test
care finally going to do the right thing by your children.]
and you
jepen my mouth to say something
If you try na stop me from seeing them runner. Prepare yourself for the consequences. Do you understand me?” he growls ||
“Txquat authreat?||
“push me and tod out“||
My stupid eyes niil wouls tears of fear. “You haven’t changest, still the selferntered boodard who only thinks of himself.”
A trace of a smirk crosses his cold, hard gaze I think you know me well enough, Violet, to know why I’m angry.“]
“You didn’t want anything to do with us.“||
“This has nothing to die with you,” he spits. “I have missed six years of my children’s life. Six birthdays. Six Christmases, six fucking years, Violet,” My stomach twists. I’m on the edge of a full emotional meltdown.||
Do the paternity test.” be warns
“And if i don17“|
Trepare yourself.”
My eyes hold hu. “For what?]]
“Armafuckinggeddon.” He stands, and without another word, walks out of my office. I stare at the back of the door be just left through
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Emotion takes over, and
over, and I put my head into my bands and ry:||
I sit in my car around the corner from my house as I try to pull myself together.||
I was so rattled that I had to leave work, I told them that i had just been told an old friend had died.]
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I’m just a dirty liar now.
My eyes are red
eyes are red and swollen, and damn it, I feel so unstable.||
Terrified
His words come back to me: “If you try to stop me from seeing them prepare yourself for the consentences My god, how has it come to this?
Last week, my life was normal, my biggest drama was finding ballet slippers, this week it’s like a had dream (
A living nightmare
The worst part is, I already know their paternity, there isn’t even a need to do the test. There’s not one serd of doubt in my mind. Gabriel Ferrara is their biological father and their is nothing I can do about it []
“Just because I didn’t want you never meant that I didn’t want them.”
“06.” I screw up my face in tears. Its words still hurt. I went straight back to being that woman who was madly in love with him, the piuful woman with my heart on the bottoms of his shor, taking his hits blow by blow
“stop it, pull yourself together have to go home.”
1 puli, down the sunshield to fix my face in the m
mirror and i ranch sight of a black car pulled over to the side of the road and packed about two hundred meters
What
I turn around and my heart sinks for the thousandth time today, he’s having me followed so that I can’t disappear. And if I were a better prison, I would tell you that going on the run with his children has never occurred to me |
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But it has especially today ||
“You are the most selfish per haver put He’s right, I am bout it takes one to know one
† pack myself up and diet myself off. I wipe my eyes and put my sunglasses on. I know I have to play by the rules, but fuck him. We’re doing this on my terms ||
