Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Single Dad Next Door Loves Me: Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 120

“I have to find a way to get to her.*“Yes, you do.” Nora agreed. Her voice was high pitched as she sat listening to me. Her gaze flickered between me and the television. I couldn't tell if she was listening to me or just distracted from her show by the sound of my voice.I stopped speaking for a few seconds. Her eyes remained on the screen for a while, eventually, she turned wide-eyed. “Did something happen?*“No. I just thought you weren't listening.*“I'm listening.”“I see that.”She adjusted.closer, Lily was in her room by now, distracted by a book or something else. The poor child hated that Mia wasn't here, but as the days went by, she started to grasp reality fast enough.“So what do you want to do now?” Nora distracted me from my thoughts as she poked me with the end of the remote.“I don't know.”“Look, I know you love this girl but I don't think you should do whatever's going through your mind.”“What's going through my mind?”She nodded. “I've known you for long, Ethan. I

The road stretched ahead of me in long, empty lines that blurred the more I drove, not because I wasn't paying attention but because my mind refused to stay anchored to anything in front of me when everything inside me was focused somewhere else.On her. On that call.On the way her name had sounded in Nora's voice when she told about it, strained in a way that didn't sit right now matter how many times I tried to convince myself it could have been nothing.I tightened my grip on the steering wheel slightly, exhaling through my nose as I leaned back just a fraction, forcing myself to focus on the road long enough to keep the truck steady.“This is a bad idea.” I muttered under my breath not because I believed it enough to turn around because saying it out loud felt like acknowledging the part of me that still understood consequences.My phone sat in the cup holder beside me, the screen dark, silent in a wha that felt louder than any notification could have been.I glanced at it briefl

“Mia!” My shouts grew louder, aggression folded in my veins as I banged my fist on front door.“Mia! I know you're in there. I know you can hear me. I just wanna talk. Please come out!”Silence greeted my loud cries. Silence and an eerie chill that ran down my back. It seemed as though every breath of life had suddenly vanished from inside the cabin.“Mia?” I paused, leaned closer, peering through the glass windows on the front door to see if I could find anything.My reflection stared me right back in the face, the corners of my lips faced down with sadness. “Mia!”Frustration mixed with a ting of anger mixed inside of me. A bolt shot through my inside, my fist met the door again, this time louder.“Mia! Come out now or so help me God, I'm gonna break this—“Hello, Ethan.” The sound of hinges opening and a familiar voice interrupted me.I paused mid sentence and turned to find Ben perched by the front door, holding the doorknob while his head was slightly poked outside of the house

I was ready to do it.Bulldoze the doors, strut my way in, push Ben to the side and go find Mia.But Ben was quicker than I was. He snatched the door handle before I could and dived inside.“If you break down my door, I'm calling the cops on you.” he roared.Cops on me?He wouldn't dare.“The same cops that are looking for Mia? Call them! I'm sure they'll definitely come.” he yelled back.I bumped shoulders into the door, pain sizzled through every nerve. I don't have the time to recover, as fast as a lightening bolt, I jumped back on my feet and rushed to the door again.“Open the damn door, Ben! I want to see her. You better open this shit up or I'll break it.” I banged with my clenched fist on the door. With all the power that I had.With all my pent up frustration.With the way I felt about Mia.Open the freaking door!Silence filled the room inside when I stopped knocking. The air stilled. It was everything and everyone in there had completely gone silent.I banged a couple of t

“I'm fine.”“You sure?”“Yes.” I said, firmly, forcing my voice as deep as it could go.“I don't believe you.”Ben pulled me deeper into his embrace. He glared at Ethan. “Whether you believe her or not, that's your business, she said she's fine and that's the end of it.”I felt his arm tighten around me, he was taking me inside, back to the living room and from there, I could tell he was headed to the dungeon. I couldn't afford to go back.No.“If you insist that she's fine, then let me speak to her.” Ethan wasn't giving up. Thank goodness.“Alone.” He emphasized. “Without you. Mia is more than capable of making her own words and I want to have a conversation with her, I'm sure the law allows that.”“But I don't.” He fully dragged me in, pushing me with a force so great, I tripped over and landed on my face... but inside. Ethan could only hear a thud if he listened well beyond the conversation.“Listen, you said you wanted to see her and I allowed you to see her but she's my woman no