All Chapters of Wild Nights With My Brother's Ex-Best Friend: Chapter 41 - Chapter 46

NICOLEIt's been a few weeks since that phone call.Yes, time is flying. I feel even more idiotic than I did before. And I'm still pregnant.I have to decide whether or not I'm going to keep the baby. I can't make a decision that will impact my whole life. And it isn't just me I'm thinking about—this baby deserves so much more than I can give it.I would've considered adoption if I weren't so terrified of what I read in the news and on social media platforms all the time about the abuse children suffer in foster homes. I can't bear the thought of a stranger hurting my child. It brings tears to my eyes.I'm seriously considering keeping the baby, even if it'll be raised in a broken home by a mother with mistakes big enough to fill the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe by then, I'll be changed. A better, stable person. Someone worthy of the title 'mom'.I don't know. I'm so torn and confused.It would've been so much easier if I had Mason in my corner. He would've given me the perfect advice, and I

NICOLEAs soon as I'm standing close enough to him, Dan takes my arm and starts dragging me away from the main area.I let him just because I don't want him to cause the scene he threatened me with, but his grip is going to leave bruises. I stare at the back of his head and imagine myself slapping him as hard as I can for putting me through this.How many times do we need to talk about this? Doesn't he understand the whole point of a breakup?At first, I felt sorry for him because I felt like I was the one who wronged him by surprising him with a breakup when there was nothing truly wrong about our relationship. I was just tired of how possessive and jealous he was. Otherwise, he was a pretty solid guy.But maybe that was a red flag in itself.Look what he's doing to me now!He drags me all the way to the lobby of the hotel we're in, then he keeps going. I endure him, waiting for us to be in private. I'm fuming at this point. Why would he try to ruin my evening in such a childish way?

ROMANAs I leave the hospital, I feel this emptiness in my fucking chest that transports me right back to my adolescent years, when all I wanted to do was eat a fucking bullet to make it all go away.The pain. The anger. And most importantly—the meaninglessness of it all.Coming face-to-face with Mason Monroe after all this time was not on my bingo card for this year, but I didn't have a choice. I knew Nikki would need her family, and I guessed that something had happened between them when I found out that she was staying at that crappy motel.I sit in my car for the longest time, holding the steering wheel and trying to breathe. The past couple of days race through my mind. I think back to the damn fundraising event and how pissed I was that Nikki was hanging around Sebastian.The way the fucker looked at her was enough to make me spiral. I could read his intentions—they were as clear as day. And then, to make things worse, I saw the way she looked at him, too.It was my sign to stay