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The First Time Again
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2026-04-21 22:57:43
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After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me Roses and New Beginnings
LYSANDER'S POV:"Are you a happy baby?" she asks him. "Are you a happy, happy baby?"Alistair gurgles. She laughs. A real laugh. The first one I have heard from her.I back away slowly, careful not to disturb them. I find Celestine in the kitchen. She is making tea, her back to me, her shoulders tense."Celestine," I say.She turns. Her eyes are red."Elara called me Mummy," she says.I freeze."What?""She called me Mummy. Just now. She was playing with Alistair and she looked up and she said, 'Mummy, can I have some juice?'""Did you give her the juice?""I gave her the juice. And then I came in here and I cried."I walk over to her. I wrap my arms around her and pull her close."Happy tears?" I ask."Happy tears," she says. "The happiest tears ever."I hold her. Her body shakes with silent sobs."You are a good person, Celestine Valancourt Ashcroft," I say. "The best person I know."She looks up at me. Her brown eyes are wet."I am just trying to do the right thing," she says."Tha
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me The Children of Our Hearts
CELESTINE'S POV:Bringing Elara home is not easy.I knew it would not be easy. I prepared myself for the tears and the hiding and the quiet, wary looks that she gave me every time I walked into a room. I told myself that it would take time, that she would need space, that I could not force her to love me or trust me or even like me.But knowing something and living through it are two very different things.The first week is the hardest.Elara cries at night. I hear her through the walls, the sound of her small sobs muffled by her pillow. I want to go to her. I want to hold her and tell her that everything is going to be okay. But I know that rushing into her room in the middle of the night will only scare her more. So I wait. I sit in the hallway outside her door, my back against the wall, my hand pressed against my mouth to keep myself from crying too.She calls me "Celestine." Not "Mummy." Not "Mom." Just Celestine, the name of the stranger who took her from the only home she has ev
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me Big Sister
CELESTINE'S POV: We bring Elara to her room. It is the room we prepared for her, the one with the pink walls and the soft blankets and the stuffed animals that I bought weeks ago, hoping and praying that she would come home with us. There is a bed with a white canopy and a bookshelf full of picture books and a window that looks out over the garden. She stands in the middle of the room, her small hands clasped in front of her, her eyes moving slowly across the walls. I watch her face. Her expression is guarded but something flickers in her eyes. I think it might be wonder. "Do you like it?" I ask. She nods. "It is pretty." "You can change anything you want. The color of the walls. The furniture. The blankets. This is your room. Your space. You can make it whatever you want it to be." She looks at me. Her green eyes are wide. "Anything?" she asks. "Anything." She is quiet for a moment. Then she walks over to the bookshelf and pulls out a book. It is a picture book about a litt
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me Promise Me
CELESTINE'S POV:The drive back from Wales takes four hours, and Elara sleeps for most of it.She is curled up in the back seat of the car, her small body pressed against the door, her dark hair falling across her face. She fell asleep within minutes of getting into the car, exhausted by the emotions of the day, by the strangers and the questions and the sudden, overwhelming change in her life.I watch her in the rearview mirror. Her chest rises and falls. Her lips are slightly parted. She looks so small, so fragile, so utterly alone in the world.I think about what she said to me in that house. ‘Will you be my mommy?’ The words hit me like a punch to the chest every time I replay them. She is only three years old. She has no one. She has never had anyone. And she is trusting me, a stranger, to be the person she needs.I do not know if I am worthy of that trust. I do not know if I can be the mother she deserves. But I am going to try. I am going to try with everything I have.Before w
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me Will You Be My Mommy?
CELESTINE'S POV: "How is she?" I ask. "She is... she is a good girl. Quiet. A little sad sometimes, but good. She has been with us for close to two years. We have grown attached to her." I look at my hands. My palms are sweating. My heart is pounding. "I want to bring her home," I say. "With me. She is family. She is my husband's child, in a way. She has a brother now, a baby brother. I want her to have a family." The woman looks at me for a long moment. Then she sighs. "We knew this day might come," she says. "Her father paid us to take her. He told us that if anything happened to him, someone might come. We did not know who. We did not know when." "Her father is dead. Her mother is dead. She has no one else." The woman nods. She stands up and walks to the window. She looks out at the garden, where a small girl with dark hair is playing with a doll. "Her name is Elara," the woman says. "She is three years old. She likes chocolate and stuffed animals and the color yellow. She
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me A Child Is Never Guilty
CELESTINE'S POV:The next day, I drive to Wales.I do not know what I will find. I do not know if Elara will want to come with me. I do not know if the family she is living with will be willing to let her go. I do not know if I am doing the right thing or the wrong thing or something in between.But I have to try.Lysander wanted to come with me. He wanted to drive me himself, to hold my hand, to be there when I met Elara for the first time. But I told him to stay. I told him that this is something I need to do alone. I need to see her. I need to talk to her. I need to know if she is okay.He did not argue. He kissed me and told me he loved me and said he would be waiting for me when I got home.I have three cars following me. Security. Lysander insisted. He does not trust Kier's world, even now, even after everything. He does not trust that there are no more traps, no more secrets, no more people who want to hurt us.I do not argue. I let the cars follow me. I let the guards watch my
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me The Secret Between Us
CELESTINE'S POV:Only then does he crawl back up my body, kissing me so I can taste myself on his tongue. His cock is hard and heavy against my thigh, but he doesn’t rush. He braces himself on his forearms, looking down at me with those stormy gray eyes full of love and raw desire.“You’re everythi
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me The Child We Prayed For
Celestine POV: I cry. I cannot help it. The tears come flooding out, hot and fast, and I do not even know if they are happy tears or scared tears or some messy combination of both. He sets me down very carefully, so carefully, like I am made of glass, like I might break if he is not gentle enough.
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me Two Pink Lines
CELESTINE'S POV:FEW DAYS AGO:I discovered I am pregnant seven weeks after our honeymoon and my first feeling was not joy nor excitement but feeling of terror.It hits me like a wave, cold and sudden, washing over me before I even have time to process the two pink lines on the little plastic stick
After The Divorce: Ex-Husband Regrets And Begs Me The Wrong Turn
LYSANDER'S POV:I find Celestine in the kitchen.She is standing at the counter, pouring hot water into a teapot, her back to me. She is wearing one of my old sweaters and a pair of leggings and her feet are bare on the cold stone floor. Her hair is pulled back in a loose bun and there is a smudge
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