Lahat ng Kabanata ng One Night Stand With The Unforgettable Stranger: Kabanata 371 - Kabanata 380

“No! None of what you’re saying is true. I love you, Chloe. I love you and I love our baby. When I asked you to marry me, it was because that’s what I wanted. What I still want. I want to marry you. I want to be with you and our child.” “But you want your company more,” Chloe said sadly. “Show yourself out.” Chloe walked away from Declan, leaving him standing in the kitchen staring after her. She didn’t look back. She couldn’t. She knew if she did, then she would crumble and forgive him and say yes to anything he wanted. But she needed to be strong for herself and the baby. She needed to walk away from him now and never see him again. It was the only way she was going to survive the rest of her life.The last thing Declan wanted to do right at this moment was meet his friends at the bar and yet, here he was. He was the last one to arrive and as he approached the table, Brian was showing the others something on his phone. “It’s not me,” Jonathon complained. “It says

Light speared his brain and his head pounded like someone was using a jackhammer inside it. But he was awake and he knew what he had to do. If he wanted Chloe in his life, then he had to be prepared to give up The Mayfield Group. It sounded extreme, but he had thought it through and it made a lot of sense to him - and not just the type of sense that came at the bottom of a whiskey bottle. It wasn’t his business that was the problem, it was his emotional ties to it. That insight had come to him in the middle of the night. It wasn’t that Chloe was opposed to him having his business or even finding a solution to keeping the business and still being with her. She had a problem with the lengths he was prepared to go to, to keep his business. She had been right. He was leveraging his unborn child in order to get what he wanted. What kind of father did that? Oh, that’s right. His own father did that sort of thing all the time. Declan did not want to be that kind of father and so he had com

“I’ve had a stomach bug,” Chloe replied. “But don’t bother taking in any of the seams, I’m sure I’ll be back to my usual size in no time.” “Come on out and have a look in the big mirror,” the other woman said. Chloe followed her out to where the rest of the bridal party waited and held the dressmaker's hand as she helped her up onto the raised platform in front of the mirror. The women seated on the sofa fell silent as they looked at her and it wasn’t a good silence. Chloe turned to look at herself in the mirror and realized what had everyone so dumbstruck. She looked awful. The color, which would normally look fine on her, made her look washed out and sallow. The dress pulled tight over her bust - the only part of her where she hadn’t lost weight - and then fell in an unshapely manner making it look like a particularly unflattering sack. “Fuck,” she whispered under her breath. She had been living in sweatpants and leggings with oversized t-shirts for the better part of two week

She opened her mouth to speak but he held up a hand to hush her and hurried on. “I know you don’t believe me right now but I want you to know that I intend to prove it to you in as many ways as I can until you do believe me. I know I have been an idiot and that what you overheard was probably the worst thing you could have possibly overheard, but there was more to the conversation than that one small snippet. I know it doesn’t negate what I said, but please understand the context it was said. What you missed hearing me say was how much I love you and how happy I am. Yes, the baby would have smoothed things over with my mother, but that’s not the reason I am happy. I am happy because I couldn’t think of anything better than starting a family with you and spending the rest of our lives together. I asked you to marry me because I want you to marry me. I want to grow old with you and have many more babies with you and bounce our grandkids on my knee. I know I have a lot to make up fo

The music started and Declan stood anxiously beside his four best friends as the bridal procession started. Abby, Barry’ six-year-old daughter, was the first to walk down the aisle, her hand clutched tightly around a basket of flowers and followed closely behind by Becky. Cassie’s cousin followed them. He held his breath as Chloe appeared and his eyes didn’t leave her as she slowly walked towards the front of the church. He had begged Cassie to let him swap partners with Mason, but she wouldn’t have it. He was stuck with Becky as his partner and Mason was Chloe’s. Not that Becky was a problem, they actually got on quite well, now that she had worked out her issues with Chloe. Chloe looked stunning in the emerald green, floor-length gown. She had regained some of the weight that she had lost, but she was still too thin. Her baby belly wasn’t showing yet and he couldn’t wait until it did. He was unreasonably excited to see her show the fruit of their love in the form of a basketbal