LOGINEthan POV This time, if the look I am giving him could kill, he would be in fucking hell right now."Don't fucking bring Phoebe into this," I say slowly."Aw, why not? Daddy Ethan getting fucking pissed when someone wants to tell him about his fucking life? See how it fucking feels? Stay out of my shit if you don't want me in yours. Tell me about wanting fucking children we you are put in that situation." He spits. He is now standing in front of me. "I am in that situation, Frailey. So don't fucking tell me that what I have with Anna isn't real. More importantly, don't ever fucking tell me that the way I care about Phoebe isn't fucking real. You don't know what real love is if it hit you with a fucking bus.""It isn't fucking real, Ethan. You and her can play mom and dad all you want, but it will never be anything more than an act out of pity. Oh, and we all know how you just can't say fucking no to a girl in distress." He smirks at me, knowing that he hit me where it hurts.Before
Ethan's POV"Frailey," I say, throwing one of the couches at his face. He lets the pillow hit him and doesn't even flinch. "Frailey, dude. You have to get up.""No," he says, turning away from me on the couch. He has been sulking for the past ten minutes, and I am not about to let him continue."Okay, well, are you going to explain to me what the hell just happened?" I ask him."No." "Well, too bad. You need to stop moping and just tell me what happened. I can't help make things better if you don't talk about what the problem is." I tell him, slapping him on the back."How are you going to make things better, Ethan? Please, tell me. Because right now, Megan and I are broken up. No, actually, we aren't broken up. This isn't just some fucking girl that I can cry over for a few weeks until I decide to get my dick sucked by the next one like you do. This is my wife. My fucking wife. The girl that I agreed to love and cherish for the rest of my life. This isn't just some girlfriend. This
Anna POV "Hey, come here. "Sit down," I informed her, shifting aside so she could take a seat. "What happened?" "We just broke up." She cried."Wait, what? Did you just break up? What happened?" "So, I questioned him about the flat. He informed me that he signed a year-long lease and that he was planning to surprise me with it. Yeah, well, I'm very fucking astonished. So I informed him that I wanted something greater, and he just didn't understand why. He informed me that he'd been urging me to acquire a bigger house and that I always insisted we didn't need it. I only meant that we didn't need one that was any bigger than what we had! Not for him to go and acquire a one-bedroom studio apartment. He was just so fucking naive; that's why I was furious about it. So I eventually just told him that I wanted to like...have a baby. And he just freaked out and began flipping out on me and said that we weren't ready and that we were too young. We are almost twenty-five! We have been togeth
Anna POV "How much longer?" I sigh into the phone. Eth chuckles on the other end, and I grin at the sound of his laugh."Like a week or so. I guess we discovered a different building," he informs me."Wait, what? What happened to the one that you guys found earlier?" I look over and find Megan reclining on the couch, fixated on her phone screen. We have been like this for hours while Phoebe is at her friend's place. But I don't mind the stillness. Eth is on speaker, and Megan giggles now and again at the chat that she hears. "Well, we aren't sure if that's the one that we want to go with now. I only think that maybe this new building will be a better place. Yeah, the traffic is a little bit worse merely because it is dabbed amid downtown, but I think it could perform a lot better than previously. It would be easy to persuade people to work in this workplace, and everyone will see it. It is a tremendously tall skyscraper, and it's magnificent," he says, excited over his new perspecti
Anna POV Anyways, you know how people say that the first time you meet the love of your life, you just...know? Like, you feel something inside of you, and it's like everything just makes sense? " she asks."Yeah, I do," I say, automatically thinking about Eth. Everything does just make sense with him."I never felt that with Eth. But thesecond that I saw KKyler, just...everything made sense. I don't even know how to explain it. It was like the world stopped momentarily, and all I could see was him. We were so different. He was wearing fucking khakis and his fraternity shirt. His hat was backwards,, and he looked like a total tool. But...he was perfect to me. Complete opposites, but damn, I swear it was love at first sight." She says, smiling widely at the memories of Kyler."So, when did Eth find out?" I asked, wid-eyedd at the story she is telling me. The fact that she was dating Eth and then left him for Kyler is crazy to me. There must have been some tension. "Well, Eth told me t
Anna POV "You guys could always get a three-bedroom house. Then, you could have room for when you two decide to have kids," I told her. "Oh, please tell Kyler that. I have been begging him about having kids for years now." She huffs."He doesn't want kids?""Absolutely not. He says that kids will only hold us back. But he isn't the one who has to stay home alone while the other is out of town for almost a month." She says, shaking her head."Maybe you should just talk to him. I'm sure he will change his mind. " I told her. Kyler seems like he would be easily persuaded."You know, I think I will. I'll mention it on FaceTime tonight. Anyways, I want to know more about you and Eth. I haven't seen him this head over heels over someone since...actually,I don't think I ever have." She laughs."What do you want to know?" "How did you two meet?" She asks me.Shit. What the fuck do I say to her? Oh, I just met him on a paid dating website via an ad that his dad had posted! Hell no."I have
Ethan POV"Okay, but I'm just as guilty as she is! I'm the one who had a girlfriend! I'm the one who cheated! She doesn't have any obligation like that. She is single." I add."Yeah, and now you are too. Look, cut Haley off because she is nothing but trouble. She fucked you over. Do I have to remin
Anna POVAs I began to wipe down the tables, I thought about what Pam said and how she might have a point. Ethan might have just had a moment of weakness. He was just too deep in his own emotions to think about what he was doing. I mean...he stopped her, didn't he? He stopped her because of me. He
Ethan POV I mumbled, not wanting everyone in the hall to listen to what I was saying. "I guess I'll just start with this. I love you. You were a better father to me than my own had ever been. You...you turned me into the man I am today. You taught her how to drive a stick shift. You taught me how
Ethan POV"You don't have to be. He's in a better place. I promise." "Eth?" "Hmm?""I'm sorry for everything. I mean it this time. I'm so sorry." She cried. "It's okay, Hal," I assured her. I think I've said this fifty million times to her. But this time, I mean it. "Do you think if you hadn't







