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I was absolutely stunned. I might be dreaming. Surely, it must be that I was sleep walking perhaps. Perhaps this was just some lucid, hallucinating dream that people had. It felt like the only believable explanation.

How on earth did he know?

My fingers felt the velvet of the box brush against it as I held the box in my hand. My eyes were entirely fixated on it and I couldn’t think of any thing else except the contents of the box in my hand.

It sparkled beneath the lighting in the kitchen sending a kaleidoscope of shapes and colours bouncing of the ceiling as the light caught each precise cut of the string of diamonds set against the white gold band.

It was the very same tennis bracelet that I had fallen in love with at the jewellery store earlier today. My eyes widened once I snapped out of my surprise and I immediately brushed my fingers over the diamonds like I wanted to make sure it was actually real and not some holographic image that was some how in my hold.

My finger felt ever prong, ever smoothened polished cravice of the diamonds cut, and the coolness of the metal. It was more beautiful now than it had even looked in the store and that was when I recalled the price tag.

“Dante, this is- I can’t, it is too much.” I shook my head closing the box but I didn’t put it back on the counter yet..

Dante shrugged like this was nothing. Like he hadn’t just dropped a large sum of money to buy me the exact bracelet that had caught my eye.

“It’s a gift, Soph. He called me by that nickname with no much of familiarity. You can’t refuse a gift.” He threw me a disapproving look but I still shook my head.

“I can. This is too much and there isn’t a reason for me to be gifted this.” I fought against him and he inhaled deeply like he was trying to keep his calm.

“Why must every thing be a struggle with you?” He ran a hand through his hair as his question hung in the air. “I do not need a reason to buy the mother of my child a gift. Consider it a very delayed push present.” Dante spoke gently looking at me with this relaxed softness in his eyes.

“Dante, but- I began to protest again.

“Please, Soph, it’s just a gift. Stop making such a fuss over it.” He said sounding exhausted and I couldn’t tell if it was from the day or from me.

“Fine. I accept it as a push present. I reasoned feeling less guilty for taking it as opposed to if he had bought it for me without reason.

Sure, it was still lavish but maybe in his head he was repaying me in some way for giving him a child and not for any other reason.

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His shoulders relaxed and the corners of his l*ps lifted. “See, that wasn’t so hard. He said sarcastically and I rolled my eyes at him.

“But what made you choose this bracelet?” I asked curios to know how he had managed to choose the same one I wanted. Was it truly a freaky coincidence?

was no coincidence. “Just a strong guess.” He replied vaguely and I knew that there was more to it but he was not

brushed my thumb against the box still in my hand feeling a small

I blinked. I winced as it brushed against my pupil each time I moved my eye. I left it closed and was about to instinctively rub it but Dante was already standing right in front of me. His one hand cupped my fave gentle and his

more but my eye teared and Dante’s thumb was quick to wipe

to get lost in his deep, yearning gaze until I was frozen in time

it felt like the old Dante stood in front of me. The Dante that I had married long ago. The Dante that I had a

had shared many things with. The one who had been a part of my every day. The one who would care for me in a heart beat. It was why it had taken so long to move

name was a heavy

the single word and I could almost feel it brush against mine

I begged breathless. I needed to k*ss him in that moment for no other

my wish. His l*ps met mine in the soften most sweetest k*ss we had ever shared.

break away from mine. I k*ssed him just as gently as he

up and I looked at him through my lashes with a smile if my own toying about my l*ps. I was all too consumed by this moment and how giddy it had made me feel. Suddenly, I was not a mature woman but some teenager having her first k*ss for the first time.

felt so different to every other k*ss that we had shared before.

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about it. It

No. No.

me like I was the air that breathed. It was so… new. He never looked at me that way iebhad my

I should get to bed. My voice was small and sounded foreign to even my own ears.

saw me withdraw and a crease formed between his brows. “Didn’t you just wake up?” He asked

then opened my mouth to make an excuse to leave but he spoke before

was much less

me to sleep and ease my mind but I had to be

before leading me over to the front porch. The

of the cushion lined seats and Dante did the same in one next to mine. He handed me a glass before he poured the bubbly liquid in to it

a long while. We both just sat there sipping slowly on our drinks, admiring the view, and the sound of the many crickets in the greenery surrounding us. Despite the comfort that

An innocent maybe even a thank you k*ss but I couldn’t let it sl*p in to nothingness because it felt like it was more. My inner self battled with what I felt and

away?” Dante’s question disturbed the

did. Dare I say not as much as Hayley though. I said lightly and

had given Hayley a week vacation that she would never forget any time soon. I could only prepare myself to hear about

“You know I never spared much thought to being a father or having a family but in the rare instances that I did have the thought, I always saw myself with a

me finish.” He warned with a small chuckle. “I thought it would be easier to raise

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that. Hayley is far better than any son I could imagine having. She is smart and witty and

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