Chapter 2 The Real Dad
Rebecca could hardly believe her eyes.
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The moment Alistair had been divorced, he looked... relieved. Almost weightless, as if a burden had been lifted.
He didn't seem the least bit nostalgic about their marriage.
Rebecca bristled. She'd let him stay by her side for six years, and she believed he should've been grateful for it. Honored, even.
Seeing him act so indifferent, so unbothered, sparked an unexpected irritation deep within her. However, she couldn't quite put her finger on why it bothered her so much.
It was over now. The years of tug-of-war with Richard, the man she truly loved, had finally come to an end. The placeholder, Alistair, the man she used to provoke Richard, had played his part and was now out of the picture. He was even sensible enough to leave without a fuss, and she should've been over the moon, awaiting Richard's proposal, ready to start their blissful life together.
Last night had been perfect. Richard and Daniel got along like father and son, and Richard had been unusually gentle with her. This should've been her happy ending, but something felt... off.
Now, with her, Richard, and Daniel, finally poised to live as a
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happy family, everything was falling into place, just as she'd scripted it. Yet a nagging restlessness gnawed at her.
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When Alistair turned to leave without a word, that restlessness. boiled over.
"Hey, Alistair!" Rebecca snapped, yanking off her sunglasses and fixing him with a cold stare.
She'd once been the dream girl of countless guys, stunningly beautiful, with a figure that turned heads and a meticulous. skincare routine that kept her looking like a college student. No one would've guessed she was the mother of a five- year-old.
Alistair glanced back, his face blank, not a flicker of emotion in his eyes.
This man didn't feel like the Alistair she once knew.
The old Alistair was always at her beck and call, eager to please, bending over backward for her. But now, he looked at her with a cool detachment that unsettled her.
"Something up?" His voice was flat, almost bored.
Rebecca wanted to lash out, to use him as her punching bag like she always had. But when her eyes met his calm, steady gaze, the words caught in her throat.
He was different. Not the pushover she'd known.
She scrambled for an excuse to vent her anger, her eyes flicking
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to his cheap clothes. With a scornful huff, she sneered, “Alistair, you were with me for years, and your taste is still this awful? Let me make one thing clear. Don't you dare tell anyone you were my husband. I have a reputation to protect."
The insult, sharp as it was, didn't even graze him.
Six years of her sharp tongue had made him immune. Her insults were nothing
new.
faint, almost
momentarily dazed,
mind. It was cold,
memory, Alistair had
moment that she realized
view did it hit her that he had completely ignored her and just
streets aimlessly, his mind turning
and where it might show
if he sat still, as long as the system was
else on his plate, he decided to
The
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he wanted to rent a place. Something small, even a bit run-down, would do just fine.
back to his father wasn't an
lost his mother in an accident when he was young. Not long after, his father remarried, starting a new family with a stepson the same age as
brought by his stepmother, got along so well with Alistair's father that they seemed like a real family. To outsiders, they
one out.
and had
the afternoon, his
He wasn't discouraged, though.
activate within forty-eight hours, and there was
up from school on time today? He's throwing a fit, crying
kindergarten teacher, caught Alistair off guard. He sighed, feeling a pang
The
frustration.
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out at four-thirty. It was now an hour past
had always handled drop-offs and pick-ups, and he knew Rebecca probably forgot him or assumed someone else
Maggie, like many others, instinctively turned to him instead of Rebecca
said, keeping his tone even. "I'm
came through the phone, loud and piercing. Maggie, clearly
with Alistair to come.
I'm divorced from Daniel's mother. She has custody. Daniel's no longer my
her."
coincidentally, near
looking at rental listings and waiting
the area.
picked Daniel up
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be more attentive. But he didn't want to do that. Daniel wasn't his son, and if Rebecca didn't care enough, it wasn't his place
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seen plenty of divorced parents before but rarely had one
after the split. After
strong.
dads in the whole school. She
verge of tears, she pleaded, "Mr.
cried. And today, he had clearly
tried calling Rebecca, but her
twice more,
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