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.”

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“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.

up fists. “The one I left you, about

get any voicemail,

called you and you never picked up. I thought maybe it’s because I called from

how you wished to inform me, a

because I didn’t owe it to you after you served me divorce papers and when I called you,

cross the distance between us. “I ran into Lily at a local cafeteria the day before you came home. We accidentally exchanged phones, and

been manipulated by him before, I would have actually believed him. “Why are you lying to me?

he called me Freckles in that little, surprised gasp

because she called. You lied to

you accidentally

into

and stops in his way when I squeeze myself further aback into the chair, not wanting to be close to him. He takes a deep breath. “I

I shake my head.

tell you that was because you were grieving your grandfather and I didn’t want to upset you more. But 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

processing every word he said. Unable to find a proper response, I settle on, “Alister has

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