Chapter 96
TARA
We took a ride back home, and I could say that I’d never been as hurt, confused, and aband
seconds that it took for us to make it back, I fought the urge to cry thousands of times, bait Lonulla’t. Not in front of Nadia, Lumldoci i scaring her like that, but I also couldn’t stop thinking about it.
“Dad’s not home. He’s out with Mom. Kayla Graham.
Aidan was a father. To someone other than Nadia.
And Aidan was a husband. To someone else who wasn’t me
Could there have been a misunderstanding somewhere?
None of it made any sense, but I still remembered the odd sense of familianity I felt when the teenager showed up, telling me somrature deep that this held some real bitter truth. The betrayal hurt like a thousand cuts from a jagged saw to the same spot.
I almost hissed in pain, but I swallowed the
he feeling like a pill, waiting until we got back.
The thought of going back to t
the penthouse where Aidan kept us…kept is away from his secrets, felt like even more facture, bu transferring this burden to my pour Mom. She had been the happiest she’d ever been during this time, and may bringing this devastating neses to her would shatter her.
I couldn’t do that.
Forcing a lid down on my feelings, my pain, and hurt, Fled Nadia up to her rooms, She yawned, and a part of me was grateful that she was too young to understand certain things because of her age. That was until she spoke.
“Mommy, I don’t want a stepmont.”“
If the other events surrounding today had not happened, I would have been shocked at Nadia’s outburst, but knowing my kid, she was always so smart, picking up things that une didn’t expect so easily.
1 couldn’t find the energy in me to cheer her up with more encouraging words, but that only piled up on the hurt, making the taste of bile even more bitter in the back of my throat.
So I shook my head, crouching by her bed to kiss her forehead. “I don’t want that either. Don’t worry baby, we’ll be alright, okay?”
She nodded, watching me with a keen eye. I was sure that she could see past hay cracked mask, but I didn’t think I could even do more to hide it.
“I love you, Mom,” she said, and I was thankful that she closed her eyes almost immediately because if not, she would have seen the mask completely
shatter.
“Yeah. Me too. My voice was small, unrecognizable, and the tears had broken free, streaming down my face allently.
1 got up immediately, slammed a hand across my mouth to muffle the sounds, and exited the room. Closing the door behind me softly, I ran to my rooms, Lore my clothes off nie in uncoordinated moverents, and walked into the bathroom. Turning on the shower nisl blasting it up to fall beat, I let myself truly break, hoping that the water would drown the sound of my cries, and maybe the loud thoughts in my head that just wouldn’t leave.
“I trusted him,” I said to myself, sobbing aggressively as the tears mixed with the water pouring down my face.
Aidan had been playing me the whole time?
All these years?
He know that it was Kayla. He sent her after me, and he showed up again to do what? Play some sich twisted game with my feelings and those of Nadia?.
possible for the heart to physically hurt, but it did. The organs surrounding my heart and the tissues connecting it strained against-
each other, resulting in a dull ache in my chest that just wouldn’t go away.
All these while, I’d thought that we would be a family. I imagined that it would take some time, maybe even years, but Aldan, already had one to begin
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Aidan had a teenage daughter with none other than Kayla.
I sobbed till I dropped to my knees on the floor, wondering just how much of this was a game to Aidan, and how much more danger we were in by being in their presence,
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