Chapter 114
“Hello, my darlings.” He smiles as they both jump into his arms. He’s had to learn to pick them both up at once now that Dominic wants a piece of the action too. “How was your
day?” He smiles as he holds them.
“Good,” Lucia says.
“We went to the park,” Dominic tells him.
“I heard.” His cold eyes rise to meet mine, and I wince. He’s angry.
He puts them down and then without saying a word to me, he walks into the other room as they follow him, chatting away.
Okay…
I’m in trouble, why is he always so dramatic?
What’s that drink?” I hear Lucia ask.
“Scotch,” he replies. I hear the ice fall into the tumbler.
Hmm…not a good sign.
I go to the refrigerator and pour myself a glass of wine, I keep my drinks in the kitchen like a normal person.
I hear him talking to the children as they walk past me out to the garden.
Still not a word to me. I take a swig as I stand at the sink.
“Why don’t you two get in the hot tub,” he asks them.
“Yes.” They both run upstairs to get their swimming costumes on, and I walk out to the garden. “Hello.” I widen my eyes.
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id you forget I’m here?
Mis cold eyes hold mine and he sips his scotch, contempt drips from his every cell.
“What’s your problem?” I raise my eyebrow.
Silence.
He bends and turns the hot tub on, and it begins to bubble.
I swallow the lump in my throat, angry Gabriel Ferrara is someone I wouldn’t wish on my
worst enemy,
The kids run downstairs and jump into the hot tub. He clicks the safety net on. “Stay on the step,” he tells them. “I have to go inside for a moment, I’ll watch you through the window.” He turns and walks past me into the house.
Great.
He’s put them in the hot tub so we can fight without them hearing.
I walk in and he shuts the glass door behind us. “How fucking dare you!” he yells.
I jump, startled. “What?”
“I know what you did today,” he screams, the veins in his neck sticking out.
“Calm down.”
“I will not fucking calm down.”
“What did I do?”
“Arranging for my mother to meet my children?” He steps forward and I step back. “When you knew that I did not want her anywhere near them.” Oh fuck…he thinks I called her. I did say that, didn’t I?
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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“It went well,” I say softly.
I don’t give a flying fuck how it went,” he bellows so loud that the windows nearly shake. “You.” His jaw flexes as he clenches his teeth. “You have no idea what you have done.”
“Then tell me,” I spit. “How can I make an informed decision if I don’t know why they can’t
see her?”
“Because I fucking said so!” he screams.
My eyes flick out to the kids in the hot tub, happily playing away, oblivious to their drama queen father.
“I’ve made the decision that she is never to see these children and YOU… purposely went against my wishes.”
“She’s your mother!” I yell back, I’m getting pissed now. “What was I supposed to do?”
He narrows his eyes and his chin tilts to the sky as if having a realization. “Show me your
phone,” he says.
“What?”
“I want to see where you called her to arrange this meeting.” Fuck.
“You need to calm down, she was nice to the children, that’s all that matters, isn’t it?” I
stammer.
“Show. Me. Your. Fucking. Phone,” he growls.
My eyes hold his.
“You didn’t call her at all, did you…?”
I swallow the lump in my throat, staying silent.
“She ambushed you.”
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“Gabriel…”
Did. You. Or. Did. You. Not. Call. Her?” he yells as he loses all control
“No. I did not.”
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His eyes flicker with fury and he storms toward the front door; I run after him. “Where are
you going?” He grabs his keys.
“I don’t want you going anywhere when you’re like this.”
He brushes past me and into the foyer, he gets into the waiting elevator.
“Gabriel…”
His eyes are murderous as the doors close in my face.
I feel like I should ring ahead and warn his mother that he’s coming…but I don’t even have
her number.
Fuck…
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