Chapter 80

When Gabriel got back, it was as if a flip had switched in him. His eyes were distant, cold, angry,

“If I wouldn’t have come here today, I would have never known about my kids?” He demanded.

“Your kids?” I raise my eyebrows. “I carry them for eight months, and they’re suddenly your kids?!”

“You

know what I mean.”

Η

“No, actually, I don’t.” I scowl, “You chose to give me divorce papers. I left you a voicemail telling you I’m pregnant and that you’re welcome to be a part of the kids’ life and I don’t want anything from you if you don’t want to be around for them.”

“What voicemail?” He asked, cutting off my little rant.

one I left you, about a month and

didn’t get any

maybe it’s

how you wished to inform me, a

to you after you served me divorce papers

not cross the distance between us. “I ran into Lily at a local cafeteria the day before you came home. We accidentally exchanged phones, and I didn’t even realise it till I wat at my grandfather’s, who told me you were home. And when I

him. “Why are

parted, and the way he called me Freckles in that little, surprised gasp hurt. “Why…

had to return because she called. You lied to me about it being a work emergency, and you continued lying to

and you accidentally exchanged

into

takes quick steps towards me, and stops in his way when I squeeze myself further aback into the chair, not wanting to be

I shake my head.

I didn’t he to you. I didn’t come back for her. It was my grandfather on the other end, calling from Lily’s phone. He called me back. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. I spent the three days that you weren’t there flying to the best oncologist in America, and then meeting Lily’s uncle Dr. Michael Grant at that cafe because if the paparazzi would’ve snapped me at his clinic, it would’ve been a PR disaster. That’s why

blink, processing every word he said. Unable to find a proper response, I

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