Chapter 21
AIDEN
“You like dogs!” I asked Gia, handing her the cone. I had noticed she had quite the sweet–tooth and while it felt nice to indulge her, I would’ve to resist those poppy eyes in future.
“Yes” She answered. She had been eyeing every dog playing in the park since the second we came here. Currently, a french bulldog had her complete attention.
“Do you have one!” In response she shook her head.
n to go and get one! That finally made her drag her eyes from the dog and settle them on me. The comer of her lips turned downwards and for a quick second I thought I upset her.
“We can’t
“And why’s that?” I asked before glancing at Freya. She was looking at our daughter with a slightly guilty expression. Maybe she had some allergy
and—
“Noah doesn’t like dogs.” Gia supplied, cuning off my thoughts. “Can you imagine? He doesn’t like dogs! They are so cute.
I took in the slight widening of her eyes and the incredulous expression on her face. Yeah, I wasn’t good enough a man to not cash in on that.
“Oh, I can’t really imagine that. I mean who doesn’t like dogs!” I looked up at Freya’s face and her face held the expression I was expecting. She raised a brow at me in disbelief. Ga on the other hand looked relieved that I shared her views.
“Right? He is weird.” She sounded annoyed with Noah Good. She was smart,
“Gia.” Freya warned, which had her focussing back on the ice cream. A good few minutes of peaceful silence ensued before her voice filled that.
“Do you
like
Mommy**
I stilled. That was unexpected at the very least. Expecially with her mother’s boyfriend in the picture. I found Freya frozen in her place, equally shocked if not more. As if she could sense me staring, her eyes met mine.
was so much more
I do.” I held Freya’s gaze while answering and watched as she sharply inhaled. My voice was firm with every bit of conviction. It was than fucking like, way past it. But I kept that to myself. I would rather not scare her away.
“Then you can become Mommy’s boyfriend?”
Gia had decided to throw yet another unexpected question. My lips twitched in amusement. Freya on the other hand looked mortified. She was blushing to the roots.
“Gia!” Freya scolded which came out more as a squeal, her eyes flickering to mine.
I tilted my head to the side and considered my daughter. “You want that?”
My question was met with an eager nod
“We can stay together and get a dog. No two dogs. The hope in her eyes as she spoke hugged at my strings. She didn’t yet know I was her father, She would though. But before that, I had to take care of one thing. And then we were going to be a family, just like Gia wanted.
“Soon sweethean. Very soon.” I promised, pressing a soft kiss to her head. And if there was anything I could guarantee, 1 never broke promises.
We walked past the security into the club. It was slightly less packed considering it was a Friday night. Cillian nudged me in the side and jerked his head towards the secluded corner, the VIP lounge. There he was. Sitting alone and nursing a drink.
“IT guy who looks like an average gym bro, Don’t tell me that’s her type. Cillian muttered with disdain as we walked towards Noah, I would’ve sported if I had even a bit of amusement left in ine. The only thing I felt was the annoyance humming under my skin.
“Mr. Knight?” He looked between the both of us confused as we took the seats on either side of him.
“Rivera” Linuttered, letting my gaze sweep over him. Silence stretched for seconds while he kept mentally guessing what could possibly be the
After another few moments of contemplation, he asked. “Is this about my girlfriend?”
Chapter 21
“You see brother! He’s not that dumb after all”
An offended frown made its way to Noah’s face, which was surprising considering I was almost expecting him to take my brother’s words as a compliment.
a say in it. Cute. I let the corner of my
“If it is, I don’t want to discuss my personal life or girlfriend with anyone.” He put that out like he actually had a say lips nug up in a barely there smirk..
“Well I do have a daughter with her. I wonder how you took the message. You must have been ecstatic. I kept my stance polite but my smile was anything but
“Look, if you want your daughter then take her.” He sounded like he couldn’t bother less about her. He again looked between the both of us before bringing his voice down.
“The sure it’s no big deal for you to get her custody. I can help you. I can be on your side if you want to. But Freya can’t know about it. That’s all i
Cillian looked at me before raising a brow in dry amusement. I was glad that he was here with me. Alone time with this motherfucker would have been a real test for my endurance. I was this close to putting a bullet in his head. Bloody fucker.
I chuckled, my voice devoid of any humor.
“The only place I’d want you would be six feet under if you let any more shit come out of that fucking mouth.”
“What-” He cut himself off when I grabbed him by the collar and jerked him forward till we were on eye level. Up this close, I could see the panic in his eyes. He was a pathetic excuse of a ma
He frantically looked around, probably hoping to catch the eye of someone. He was really stupid for an IT guy, I’ll give him that
As instructed, our staff had told him that he was upgraded to a VIP customer and could access the lounge and like the absolute idiot he was, he lapped it up. The lounge was made unavailable until we were done. That just left us three in here.
“No one’s gonna help you. They are on our payroll” Cillian’s lips streiched in a sinister smile as he brought the glass to his lips. He was enjoying
this.
The staff wouldn’t bat an eye at whatever goes on here. We have in fact carried out the less legal businesses here and the workers around here knew to respect both the discretion policy and the handsome bonuses handed out to them.
“Listen well. You will go back and break up with Freya. Tell her you want out of this relationship. I uttered every word low and clear for them to penetrate his thick skull
“Why would I do that? Are you trying to threaten me?” Even though he pretended to look strong. I smelled the nervousness right off him. I let go of my hold on him and leaned back, a low chuckle reverberating in my chest.
“If I wanted to threaten you I would have asked if you valued your life. I would have told you that I can make you disappear off the face of the earth and nobody will lift an eyebrow,
I smiled, maliciously. “Just like that, I can make you cease to exi
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