Chapter 74 – A Lot of Angela (Sky‘s POV)
My heart was thumping in my chest so hard that I could not breathe. I met her eyes hiding beneath her eyeglasses. How could I miss it? Why didn‘t I recognize her when all the clues were there? I only remembered her face filled with red spots, missing the clue that the Angela I knew and Anj in front of me were the same. Her eyes, intoxicating smell, and how she made me crazy. Only Angela could do it; the woman I married at sweet sixteen and divorced me at seventeen. We spent amazing and annoying hours together, not even a year, before she left me, leaving my ego badly hurt, my heart not capable of loving anymore.
Divorced? Then it dawned on me she did not bother signing the divorce papers because she made me look idiot into the truth that she was a minor without parental consent when we married.
“Who is Angela?” She asked me, avoiding my gaze to sip her coffee, and turned to Leyanne to wipe the honey on her chin. “Why are you looking for her?”
Nice try! I wanted to tell her.
If the kids were not here, I would confront her, find the wedding ring she took, and make her swallow it, as I said before.
Kids?
it dawned on me that they were really my children. I am their father. I am that bastard father who left her to raise the kids alone, except I didn‘t know she got pregnant when she left me.
tell me with open arms that she was the Angela I was looking for. Even if I hang her, hurt
Lyra Helene glanced at me as she finished
head, smiling and wanting to cry as I remembered how my daughter found me and begged me to be her father for a school activity. My heart was aching when reminded of how proud they were to tell me I
said, wanting Anj or Angela, whatever, to believe that I was still looking for a different
Selene giggled.
reached for her. “Come to Daddy,” I said, hugging my daughter as if it was my first time to see her. I buried my face on top of her head, wanting to cry about how I missed everything about them. I kissed her hair and
was hit and
Anya Angela wanted to call that night. How
me and carrying her in her arms.” What are you thinking?” She asked
“How about another sleepover?” I waggled my eyebrows at Leyanne
to her, but she shook her
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