Lahat ng Kabanata ng My Ex-husband’s Regret: On his knees for me: Kabanata 51 - Kabanata 60

CHARLOTTE~•~Alexander completely won Nyla over.The moment he stepped inside with that ridiculous stack of wrapped gifts, he became the most interesting person in the room. Nyla’s eyes went wide and she immediately came out from behind me. She didn’t even wait for introductions.“Are those for me?” she asked, bouncing on her toes. I hadn’t even noticed that she had followed me downstairs.Alexander crouched down to her level. “Only if you say please first.”“Please!” Nyla shouted, already reaching for the first thing she could.He laughed, surprised, and handed her the smallest box. She rushed to the living room and tore into it like it was Christmas morning. Inside was a plush orange cat with huge eyes and a little bell collar. Nyla squealed and immediately hugged it to her chest. “It’s orange!” she announced.“You like orange?" Alexander asked, glancing at me. What were the odds that he bought something in her favorite color for her?“Yes!” She exclaimed, admiring her new plushie

ALEXANDER~•~“Any tighter and you’re going to break that mug.”I released my grip immediately, dropping the mug on the kitchen island before I actually broke it.Harvey laughed. “What? Didn’t you already know they were together? Why is the news making you angry?”Because the last few times they’d been photographed together in the past year, they both denied the dating rumors. It had been nine hours since the article was released and Charlotte didn’t deny it. It was either she was tired of denying rumors or she actually had something to do with him.Then again, I’d already seen them in a bed together while she was topless. Was I really surprised? I just hated the fact that it meant things were more serious between them, which gave me little to no space to get back together with her.“They might not be in a relationship though,” Harvey offered, trying to make me feel better.“So they’re just fucking?” Somehow, that was even worse. Before I met Charlotte, she didn’t do casual hookups. H

CHARLOTTE~•~My mouth opened and closed repeatedly, not knowing what to say. Alexander and I shared a glance, but neither of us could come up with words. It was careless of us to get into an argument within Nyla’s earshot.“Why are you guys fighting?” She asked again, looking at me. When I didn’t have an answer for her, she walked up to Alexander. “Are you my daddy?”My chest tightened uncomfortably as she looked up at him for her answer while he looked at me.She’d known him for barely a month. How was she already so comfortable with him? Was it true when they said girls were closer to their fathers? I was closer to my father as well, but that was only because he treated me better than my mother did.I’d done everything I could for Nyla. She barely even knew Alexander yet in the heat of the moment, she walked over to him?My eyes darted across the kitchen, unable to look at both of them together. Nyla was innocent. She knew nothing about our history, but somehow I felt betrayed.“Mm

CHARLOTTE~•~“You’re distracted again.”“I—““Pause.” Dave held out a hand to stop me. “Don’t tell me you’re thinking about Alexander again.”I immediately felt guilty. “Not entirely about him.”“Him and Nyla?”I nodded. I hated that I was still thinking about Alexander while I was on my first proper date with Dave. The man wouldn’t even be in New York for long yet here I was wasting the little time I had with him. “But I won’t think about that anymore. I’ll focus on the movie.”“The movie won’t start for another…” he glanced at his wrist watch. “Five minutes. I don’t exactly want to talk about your ex-husband on our date, but since Nyla is involved, I can tolerate it.”I chuckled. “It’s fine. We don’t have to talk about them.”“You look bothered, Charlotte,” he said, holding one of my hands in his. “There’s a saying: a problem shared is a problem half solved.”I snorted. “Do you believe that?”“No,” he chuckled. “But I also don’t want you to carry everything alone.”“It’s nothing se

ALEXANDER~•~I opened my front door and came face to face with Charlotte.I let out a sigh. “What are you doing here?” Instead of answering, she tried to walk past me inside the apartment, but I held a hand out to stop her. “I’m on my way to work. I don’t have the time to entertain you.”“Entertain me?” She reeled back as though she had been slapped. “What is the meaning of this?” She slammed the papers on my chest, all of them falling to the floor.I didn’t bother picking them up as I already knew what they read. “You did not come to my place early in the morning to ask me what your lawyer could easily explain to you, right?” I arched an eyebrow. She had called me several times last night but I didn’t bother answering. There was no use answering. She made her decision when she said I’d never get to see Nyla without her. I’d made mine now and I wasn’t going to change my mind.Charlotte chuckled, but there was no humor to it. She had a hair in a high ponytail, but some of the curls fr