Chapter 52
I was fuming. He told her I was going to send her away? Why would he do that? How the hell did he find the audacity to tell that to my own daughter? I knew Rosie wasn’t going to lie to me. She had no reason to lie to me.
“Mommy did I do something wrong! You look angry.” Rosie said in a quiet voice as she took a couple of steps towards me.
My anger lessened when my eyes fell on her. 1 picked her up and kissed her cheek. “You did nothing wrong, cupcake. I’m not angry with you at all,”
I assured her. “I need you to understand this well, okay! You’re always going to live with me, and I won’t let anybody come between us, yeah!” She slowly nodded. I kissed her cheek and set her down.
“Guys, I need you to stay with her. I need to go somewhere,” I told Maya and Sam.
“Where do you want to go?” Sam frowned as he stood up
“To see Mail, I want to know how the hell he was thinking to tell my daughter something like that,
“Maybe it’s just a misunderstanding.” Maya suggested. “Rosie, when did he tell you that?”
“A few days ago,” Rosie mumbled, looking at all of us. She seemed a bit shaken, and I didn’t know what to do to make her feel better.
“Okay, sweetheart. How did he say that to you?” Maya asked her cautiously. We all saw her state, so we didn’t want to scare her more than she was already seared
I sat down beside Maya and reached for my daughter’s hand. “You’re not in any sort of trouble, Rosie. We just want to know why Matt told you
that
“One day, we were watching Disney movies and he told me he wanted to watch a football game,” she started talking. “I asked him not to change the channel, but he didn’t listen to me. I told him that Daddy lets me watch cartoon and he told me that it’s good I love Daddy because I’m going to live with him forever.”
I was doing my best to control my anger in front of her. “What else did he say, cupcake?”
“I got scared when he told me that and told him that I want to live with you, but he said that he’s going to make a new family with you, and I have to live with Daddy because you would need my room.” I was going to kill him for what he had done. “He told me not to tell you anything or I’d be a bad girl and you’d send me to Daddy sooner.”
He wanted to make sure that she wasn’t going to say anything to me.
“That’s not going to happen, baby girl. You can stay at Daddy’s place for as long as you want, but the moment you want to come back here, Daddy or 1 will do that I wanted her to feel safe.
I stood up again and grabbed my phone.
“Are you going to see him!” Sam asked, earning a nod from me. “I’m coming with you.” I was going to refuse, but then I thought it might be better to have him with me.
■“Okay, let’s go“
The two of us headed to my car and I let Sam drive since I was too angry to do so. I couldn’t believe that he did that. Was that his plant Did he think that I was going to give up on my daughter for him? I made it clear more than once that she was my priority, so what made him think that I would pick him over hert
“Listen, I know that you’re raging, but try to be calm while talking to him, okay?” Sam said as he parked the car.
“I’ll do my best.” I wasn’t going to make promises I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to keep or not.
“Would you l
you like me to go upstairs with you or wait for you here!”
I wanted him with me.
“Come with me,” I said, gening out of the car. The light wind blew my hair and I wrapped my jacket tighter around my body.
It dawned on me that I wasn’t sure if he was home or not, but he had work tomorrow and it was already t
I pressed on the intercom button of his apartment and waited for him to answer. It took him less than a minute to do so. I could tell that he was surprised upon hearing my voice,
His surprise grew when he saw Sam with me; nevertheless, he let us in.
“Is everything okay!” he worriedly asked.
“No, everything isn’t okay,” I replied, looking at him. It wasn’t easy to stay composed before sim, but I wasn’t here to fight. I wanted real answers.
11:45 AM
Chapter 32
“Dad something happen!” He seemed confused.
“Dil you tell Rosie that I was going to send her to live with her father?” His eyes widened. He probably thought that she wasn’t going to tell me anything. “Did you? I hissed when he stayed silent.
“I didn’t mean it like that,” he said, making me scoff
“And how exactly did you mean it? Because I can’t seem to find any other meaning behind your words” 1 folded my arms over my chest.
“I just..” He raised his hands in frustration, then let them down. He didn’t have anything to say. “I was only trying to get her to listen to me because I wanted to watch the football game.”
“So, you decided to scare her? That sounds logical to you?” I snapped.
“That was the on
only think that came to my mind, Amelia he exclaimed.
“Listen, Mau.” I took a couple of steps towards him. “Did you ever think that I was eventually going to send Rosie to live with Juliani” I wondered.
He stayed silent for a few seconds, then nodded. “I thought that you were finally going to pay more attention to us. Rosie has all your attention and now that Julian is in the picture, you barely pay attention to us!” he angrily exclaimed. He hadn’t talked to me about that before.
“Even if you have any issue with me, you don’t have the right to take it on my daughter!” I cried.
This is unbearable! You
You’re not even allowing me to discipline her His anger was starting to be more apparent.
“Because you’re not her father!” I yelled.
“I have been in her life more than her father has been. By now, the two of us were standing so close to one another.
“It wasn’t his choice! That was my fault, not his” I reminded him.
“That fault was the best thing you’ve ever done in your life. And I still believe that you should send Rosie to live with him. Maybe you can have her during the weekends.” I wanted to panch him in the face.
“I’m tired of this,” I mumbled, taking off the promise ring he gave me.
“Are you seriously doing that?” Shock had taken over his face. “I moved here for you!”
“And I never asked you to do so, I calmly said. I handed him the ring. I wasn’t going to let him guilt–trip me. I didn’t ask him to move here for me. “I have been clear from the very beginning about my priorities, but clearly you had another plan in mind.”
“You’re going to regret this. Amelia”
I didn’t say anything and turned to walk away
*Consider yourself uninvited from the wedding, Sarn said before following me out of Mart’s apartment.
Sarn didn’t come with me to fight my battles, but he was there to protect me in case something bad happened. He was the brother I never had, and I was more than lucky to have him in my life.
“Are you alright?” Sam asked me once we got in the car.
“Would it be weird if I told you I am?” I looked at him.
“Not really,” he said. “You have been very stressed lately and I kept telling myself that it might be because of work, but i think I now realize what’s
going on.”
“What’s going on?” I frowned. Was there something I was failing to see?
“You didn’t want to be in a relationship with Matt, Amy. You wanted out and you didn’t know how, so the moment you found your chance, you took. it. I didn’t say anything as I weighed his words in my head.
I hated that he was right. For a while, I had been uncomfortable in my relationship with Matt, and I couldn’t find the courage in me to break up with him. I kept telling myself that he was a good man, and I was fortunate to have a man like him as my partner. I always had this feeling in my gut that something wasn’t right, but I didn’t know how to prove it. At the end of the day, it was a mere feeling
“Emily.” I looked at my best friend when he called me by my old name. “Do you still have feelings for Julian?”
My eyes widened a little at his question. What made him think like that? Had I done anything to make people think that I still had feelings for Julian?
“I don’t,” I said, not looking at him.
“You’re now not dating anybody. Maybe you have a real chance to think,” he told me as he started the car.
11:46 AM c S
Chapter 39
When I got back home, Rosie was the first to greet me. She ran towards me, and I picked her up, holding her close. I took a look at her and realized that Maya had given her a shower and brushed her hair.
“I tried to get her to sleep, but she’s as stubborn as you,” Maya told me, making me smile. “How did it go?” she wondered.
“I will take Rosie to bed, then I’ll tell you everything,” I said, then headed upstairs. “Now, that I’m home, you don’t have any excuse. It’s very late.” 1 gently put her in bed and pulled the cover over her.
“Sorry, Mommy, she whispered.
1 kissed her forehead and stayed with her for a little while until she had fallen asleep. It had been a long day for her and I was surprised that she managed to stay awake until I was back since she was already at the arcade with Harper. It was very rare for her to stay up until late like that.
I made my way
downstairs to my fr
friends. It had been a long day for them too.
“Sam has told me everything.” Maya said as I sat down beside her. “Are you okay!”
“I am.” I wasn’t lying.
“Good thing my wedding is coming. Maybe we can set you up with someone” I laughed at Maya’s comment. “Speaking of my wedding. Now that you’re single, who are you going to walk down the aisle with?”
That was an issue I wasn’t ready to find a solution for tonight.
