Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

My CEO 182

182 Confronting Issues Together

(Winona)

We move into the next part of our therapy session. Barnaby asks my fears at the moment.

"I'm worried about seeing Ashlyn," I admit, my voice shaky. "But it's not just her that I'm worried about. What if, by some miracle, there is a baby?"

Jayden looks at me, surprise flickering in his eyes. "I don't believe it for a second."

"But," I say, taking a deep breath. "If she is still pregnant... that's your child, Jayden. And it can't be raised in a high-security mental facility. You know how your mother feels about your offspring. She might come back." "Damn. Do you think she would? I'd rather she stayed away. I can breathe now, at least."

"If there is a baby, I can't see her staying away. If there is a baby, I can't see her not knowing about that already and leaving in the first place." That much is true. "Something here doesn't add up."

lies. To make us doubt each other like she's done so many times before. Not this time, Winona, I refuse to buy into what she's selling." "Except that her wedges are never just of the imaginary kind. She's always played on the truth about you, the part of you she knows intimately, and I've never

looks down to the floor. I'm not wanting to hurt him, or blame him, I just need him to understand that whatever Ashlyn's hold is on him, it runs deeper than the surface and him understanding that is

when you were trying to get a confession out of her. She was one step ahead. Then with your mother involved, who just wants me

"Isn't she?"

shakes his head. "No, she's been so good with

out of your life. It's just how it is. I'll never trust that woman. And if you have any sense,

and it will bring up a lot of emotions. What will you do if there is

For Jayden, for the baby, but mostly for Abby. A baby would mean Ashlyn is connected to us forever. I'm not sure I want to invite a baby into my home like that. I have Abby to think of and my own sanity." Barnaby speaks again. "Good, now we're getting to it. If Ashlyn wasn't in a facility and she was still pregnant with Jayden's child, how would you

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go. We're not even sure we can live together at this point with or without an extra child in the mix." "Good, right. So you see where the work is still needed. Now, Jayden, how would you

it. But I would raise the child as best I could. I would hope Winona could be part of that. I'd expect that once Winona and I marry, that we would all live together as a family.

ever happening. If there was a baby, Judy would be back and I'd be stuck with her in

you'd see happening, Winona?" Barnaby

man I love. But I'm here in the safe space to get my real feelings out. Not to