Dear ex-Wife please be mine again

Chapter 41

Christiana’s POV

The morning sunlight streamed through the curtains, but it did nothing to lift my mood. All I could think about was the chaos Alex had caused last night. I paced the length of my bedroom, my anger simmering beneath the surface. How dare he? How dare he storm in and ruin my night with Daniel as if he still had any claim over me? It wasn’t like I went to sabotage his relationship with Bianca when he left me for her, so what gave him the right to show up and humiliate me like that?

I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t notice the twins had snuck into the room until I felt a tug on my robe. I looked down to see Ethan and Emma, both staring up at me with expectant faces. Their innocent eyes, so full of curiosity, were the only things capable of grounding me when I felt this lost.

“Mommy, we wanna see Daddy,” Emma said, her small voice carrying more weight than she knew. Ethan nodded eagerly beside her, his eyes wide with hope.

My chest tightened at their words. Of course, they wanted to see him. They’d been asking about Alex nonstop since the airport incident, and I’d been stalling, trying to figure out how to manage this impossible situation. But after last night? The idea of facing him again, after that ridiculous stunt he pulled, was unbearable.

“Sweethearts,” I said as gently as I could, crouching down to their level. “Daddy’s… very busy right now. He has a lot of work to do, and we can’t just see him anytime we want.”

“But you promised,” Ethan whined, his lower lip jutting out in that way that always broke my heart. “You said we could see him soon. You said!”

I took a deep breath, trying to hold onto my patience. “I know I did, baby, but sometimes things don’t go as planned. Maybe we can plan something for another time?”

face scrunched up in determination. “You

him now!”

combined with the anger boiling inside me because of Alex, was too much. I could feel the frustration rising, the knot in my

startling even me. “You can’t see

my voice like this, and seeing their little faces. crumple with confusion and hurt broke something inside me. Emma’s eyes welled up with tears, and she quickly wiped at them with her fists, trying to be brave. Ethan just stared at me, as if he couldn’t

doing? This wasn’t their fault. They were just kids, caught up in a mess they didn’t deserve to be part of. The tears in their eyes were a mirror of the chaos

voice was shaky as I pulled them both into a hug, their small bodies stiff against me at first. “I didn’t mean to yell at you. I’m just… tired, and there’s a lot going on right now. Please don’t be

“You don’t want us to see Daddy

to figure things out, okay? I promise I’ll make

up at me, his eyes still

r with

twisted at the vulnerability in his voice. “Never, my love. I could never be mad at you two. I’m just… dealing some grown–up stuff, and sometimes it makes me

slowly, but I could tell they were still unsure. I kissed the tops of their heads, wishing I could take back the harshness of my words. They didn’t deserve to feel like this, not because of my issues with their father. It was Alex who I w

you what,” I said, forcing a smile onto my face. “How about we do something fun today? Maybe we can bake cookies or watch a

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