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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."

what she wants. To drive a wedge between us with 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

understand that whatever Ashlyn's hold is on him, it runs deeper than the

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

"Isn't she?"

shakes his head. "No, she's been so good with Abby. So good with us before she

you back and to get Abby. To get me out of your life. It's just how it is. I'll never trust that

serious. "It's understandable to have distrust, Winona. This situation is very complex, and it will bring up a

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,

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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 handle the fact that you were to have a newborn baby and this child would be your

part of that. I'd expect that once Winona and I marry, that we would all live together as a family. Raise the children in the

a baby, Judy would be back and

see happening, Winona?"

and make out everything will be just fine if that happened, like I always have. Or I can tell my truth and probably upset the man I love. But I'm here in the safe space to get my real feelings out. Not to hide, I'm not here to sugarcoat things anymore. Saying things are okay and them actually being okay are two different things. Even if this means I might lose Jayden, I

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