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?”

little face scrunched up in determination. “You

him now!”

they didn’t understand what was going on, but the constant pressure from them, combined with the anger boiling inside me because of Alex, was too

I snapped, the sharpness in my tone startling even me. “You can’t see

voice like this, and seeing their little faces. crumple with confusion and hurt broke something inside me. Emma’s eyes welled up with tears,

up in a mess they didn’t deserve

a hug, their small bodies stiff against me at

don’t want

her back in slow circles. “I just need a little more time to figure things out, okay? I promise I’ll make sure you see him soon, but you have to be patient with

up at me, his eyes still full of worry. “You’re not

r with

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 say things I don’t

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 supposed to

“How about we do something fun

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