Semua Bab My Ex-husband’s Regret: On his knees for me: Bab 101 - Bab 110

ALEXANDER~•~My eyes stayed on Charlotte’s back as she stepped out of the door and closed it behind her.It was very obvious that something was wrong with her and I knew it had nothing to do with me. Although things had been awkward between us over the past week, she never seemed uncomfortable in my presence. Something else was wrong and I needed to find out what.I just couldn’t run after her when she clearly asked me for space.“I didn’t know you two were playing house again.” Harvey dragged my attention back to him. Nyla had let go of his hand and had retreated to the living room to play on her iPad. “Back together?” He questioned with a hint of doubt in his voice.I dragged a hand down my face. I had never told Harvey that Charlotte kind of moved in. I told him about Nyla, which was why he reduced his unannounced visits, but I couldn’t bring myself to talk about Charlotte because I knew he would ask a lot of questions that I didn’t have answers for. “It’s temporary. For Nyla.”Ha

DAVE~•~“You didn’t mention it all evening. I thought you hadn't seen it yet.”“I did. I just didn’t want to ruin the mood with what strangers say online. They don’t know me and they don’t know you. Nothing they say is true.”I knew Charlotte was bothered by the comments online, but I had an inkling that wasn’t the only reason she was hesitant to say yes to me.Sure, our relationship started as something physical, but I’d told her some months back that I wanted to date her properly. I thought we were going slow. Did slow for me mean something else for her? There were times when I thought she really liked me, but there were other times, especially recently, that I thought her head wasn’t really in it.I usually dismissed it because the past few months of her life had been crazy: running into her ex, having to take care of her pregnant friend, her father needing surgery as well as the custody battle. It had been a lot so I wasn’t too surprised whenever she zoned out. But now I was b

CHARLOTTE~•~After the call with Dave, I took a shower and stepped outside the room hesitantly.The house was strangely quiet. I hadn’t checked what the time was, but it didn’t seem early. After all, I never woke up early if I drank the previous night.When I went downstairs, I saw Nyla in the living room, focused on her iPad. I took quiet steps towards her to see what she was doing. She was busy trying to draw random things in under twenty seconds. She failed most of the time but was determined to keep going.“Having fun?”Nyla’s eyes snapped toward me, her serious expression turning into a smile. “You’re awake, mommy. I tried to wake you up, but you wouldn’t wake up and daddy said I should let you be.”I didn’t know why she loved waking me up so much but I was glad I didn’t wake up then. My headache would have been worse.Since Alexander was the one who told her to let me be, I assumed the Tylenol on the nightstand was also from him. Before I could ask her where the man was, I hear

CHARLOTTE~•~Alexander eventually left the house for the office sometime past noon. As soon as he was gone, I got dressed, dressed Nyla, and took her to Lucy’s place.All I did was rotate between Alexander’s house and Lucy’s house, but then again, I was on a break from my career.When we arrived at Lucy’s place, she was in the kitchen, making a cup of coffee for herself. Nyla asked about the baby, visibly disappointed when she found out that Elara was sleeping. Lucy’s mother was also sleeping in the guest bedroom. Apparently, the baby had kept all of them up at night but Lucy managed to sleep this morning so her mother was sleeping in the afternoon.I gave her an empathetic smile as Nyla disappeared up the stairs. She was already very familiar with the house so I didn’t bother her. “All these will pass,” I assured her. “After now, you’re going to be more worried about her destroying things.”Nyla had broken the TV when she was two. She’d shattered several glasses in a bid to get hers

CHARLOTTE~•~Alexander had implied a million times that he wanted me back, but I thought I’d never have to face it since he never said it out loud, not this clearly at least.My first instinct was to pretend I heard nothing and go to bed, but my foot stayed rooted in place even when I tried to move.Alexander, taking advantage of my speechlessness, moved even closer. “Why do you look so surprised, baby? Have I not made it clear in the past few months?”I placed a hand out, but that didn’t stop Alexander. He moved even closer and I found myself withdrawing my hand until there was not much space between us anymore. Why did crazy things always happen at night?“If I wasn’t clear before, then I’ll be clear now. I’m trying to make you mine again.”It was fucking ten o’clock at night. He just came back from work. Where did this conversation come from? “You just called Dave my boyfriend,” I said when I found my voice but it came out shaky. I cleared my throat and tried again. “Don’t you kno