Chapter 19
I glanced at the clock for the millionth time. It was five in the morning. Gia’s soft spores were the only sound in the otherwise quiet room. I pushed of the covers and werd downstairs to prepare breakfast.
I
Terived it Immed cooking. I have always found in therapeutic. Baking, more so. I put the croissants in the oven to bake before cleaning the countertop. My head felt heavy, all the exhaustion finally catching up.
Last night, with all the thoughts running wild in my head, I couldn’t catch an ounce of deep. Everything just kept on replaying in my mind. I wondered how the next moming would look like when I would tell Noah everything. I could sense an impending headache, God! Why was everything such a mew!!
11 was half past six, exactly an hour before Gia would wake up for school, not on her own that is. Figured this would be the perfect time to talk to Noth. As if just on cue I heard footsteps. He came and stood in front of the kitchen.
“Yeah, I wanted to talk to you as well” 1 followed him out of the kitchen. When we reached the kitchen, he turned back and scratched his nose.
“So about last night_uhm–I just want us to forget everything. Fresh day, fresh start, right?”
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1 blinked, not exactly catching on. That didn’t sound like an apology. Or should I be expecting one in the first place?
“Right” I muttered and we stood awkwardly for a few more seconds.
So, you wanted to
o say something!”
That’s when I remembered. “Yeah–uh–I don’t know how to
“No, it’s all good. You don’t have to, you know,” Noah waved a hand at me in dismissal and I almost didn’t catch what he meant until I did. I let our an uncomfortable chuckle.
“Oh! No. I wasn’t gonna apologize for last night.” I wouldn’t say sorry for when I wasn’t in the wrong. At least not in the matter he was referring to. A look of mild disappointment came over his face.
While he struggled to process the fact that he didn’t receive an apology in return. I decided there was no other way to go about this. Better to get straight to the point.
“I told you that I didn’t know much about Gia’s father.”
“The stranger you hooked up with.” Hearing that loud made me cringe i
internally. That rebound sex a rather rash impulse on my behalf. It wasn’t a
habit
“Well that stranger is Aiden Knight”
He snorted. “Huh, funny!”
I pressed my lips together and stared at him. Noah thought I was in the mood for some silly pranks. This wasn’t going well. The silence stretched for what felt like an entire hour before his face fell.
“You’re not joking
“No.” I softly said.
“Fuck, so you weren’t meeting the first time at the company function. He looked up at me, his eyes behind his back the entire time.
filled with accusations. Like I had been going
Technically, no. But that’s the day I saw him after all these years. Before that I didn’t know that Aiden Knight was. I trailed off
“What My boss? Fuck me! You had been pretending all this time.” That one, I couldn’t deny. 1 should have told Noah everything from the very beginning. Then why didn’t 1
Now that I thought of the reason, a bitter realization filled me. I didn’t trust him to be understanding about this. That alone was enough to hint at how shallow this whole relationship was, I had been kidding myself into thinking that we had something good
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pranohend the bridge af mynd how you would react
would react” Tell me how I should be reacting now that I know that you have a child with my boo!” Even though it wasn’t exactly
“Why tell me now?” Noah put his hands on his hips, waiting for my answer. I remembered Aiden’s words. It was quite obvious that he wasn’t gonna want any loners. H 1 didn’t talk to Nosh today, I was pretty sure he would show up at our doorstep and that wouldn’t have gone well. I wasn’t sure This was going well either.
1 sighed. “He wants to be present in
life as her father.”
“You’re in touch” He hit an abrupt pause, his mouth h falling open with a look of realization. “Were you with him last night?”
“Not No. Not in that sense” I hardly got the words out.
So you were with him”
I told you. I went out with key. just happened to be in the same club His mock laughter indicated that he didn’t believe my words. “Yeah, a fucking coincidence. You want me to believe that
I hated explaining myself that much, especially when the person at the other end behaved this uncivilly. I had to take deep breaths to reign it all
- n. Because *t’s true.” Noah glared at me and I held his eyes. The only sound in the room was of his harsh breaths, He rubbed a hand across his face before again meeting my gaze.
“I don’t want him waltzing into your lives when all this time I’ve been the one to take care of you.”
