All Chapters of Too Late To Love Me: I Already Left With His Twins: Chapter 201 - Chapter 210

Dave POVThe rest of the afternoon disappeared beneath an avalanche of signatures, conference summaries, investor calls, and enough paperwork to make me question every life decision that had led me to becoming a CEO.By the time my final in-person meeting wrapped up, the clock on the wall read 5:38 p.m.Perfect.For once…I wasn’t late.As I stepped into the underground parking garage, my driver was already waiting beside the car.He hurried forward to open the rear door.“Good evening, sir.”“Evening.”I slid into the back seat, immediately setting my briefcase beside me.“Home?”He glanced at me through the rearview mirror.“Yes, sir?”I checked the time again.5:42.“…Actually, let’s head home, but don’t rush. I’ve got a video call in a few minutes.”“Of course.”The city slowly came alive around us as we pulled out of the parking structure.Office workers poured onto sidewalks in neatly pressed suits.Street vendors arranged evening snacks beneath glowing lanterns.Traffic thicken

Lydia POVI stayed in my room for another ten minutes after the call ended, and somehow, the conversation still revolved around outer space. Eli had somehow convinced himself that black holes were simply the universe’s version of giant vacuum cleaners, while Ava looked personally offended by that explanation. She launched into another passionate speech about gravity, spacetime, and event horizons, complete with exaggerated hand gestures that made her nearly knock over the glass of water on my bedside table. Eli listened with the expression of someone trying very hard to understand before confidently concluding, “So… it still eats things.” Ava buried her face in a pillow with the kind of dramatic sigh only a seven-year-old could manage, while I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. Some nights, these two exhausted me beyond words. Other nights, I found myself silently wishing time would slow down because I already knew I would miss moments like this someday.Eventually, I ushered them towar

Lydia POVThe meeting had barely begun before the room slipped back into the familiar rhythm of corporate debate. The large digital screen displayed executives joining from different countries, each one greeting the room before diving straight into updates. Charts appeared on the screen one after another, displaying engagement statistics, media sentiment reports, investor confidence indexes, customer retention forecasts, and pages of analytics that would have overwhelmed anyone unfamiliar with crisis management.To me, it looked like another Monday.The head of Digital Strategy stood first, clicking through a presentation filled with graphs.“Our online sentiment has improved by twelve percent over the last five days. The apology video continues to perform well across every platform, particularly among women between the ages of twenty-five and forty-five. Engagement has remained consistently positive, and our response team has successfully replied to over ninety-six percent of direct

Theo’s POV“Their father is present in their lives.”“We’re simply… no longer a thing.”It wasn’t even the words that stayed with me.It was the way she’d said them.There had been no bitterness.No anger.No resentment.No passive-aggressive remarks that divorced people usually slipped into conversations without realizing.Nothing.If anything…There had been warmth.Quiet warmth.Respect.Almost… affection.Not romantic affection.At least, I didn’t think it was.But it certainly wasn’t indifference.And that fascinated me.Over the past year, I’d watched people turn divorce into warfare.I’d sat inside courtrooms where parents used children as bargaining chips.I’d watched million-dollar custody battles where two people who had once sworn forever now couldn’t bear hearing each other’s names.I had lived through one myself.So hearing Lydia casually acknowledge the father of her children with nothing but quiet respect…It felt unusual.Almost impossible.She hadn’t rolled her eyes.

Lydia POVI walked the familiar hallway toward my office on autopilot, offering absent-minded smiles to employees who greeted me as I passed. Someone from the legal department waved. One of the interns nearly dropped her tablet trying to hold the elevator open for me.I thanked them all.I couldn’t even remember doing it.My mind was somewhere else entirely.By the time I stepped into my office, I let out a long breath, shut the door behind me, and all but collapsed into my chair.“…What was that?”I spun the chair slowly toward the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city.Theo.What on earth had that been?At first, I thought he was going to ask about the company’s recovery plan.Then I thought maybe he wanted another woman’s perspective on the custody situation with his ex wife.Or perhaps he wanted clarification on one of our campaigns.Instead…“How are your twins?”I laughed quietly to myself.“Seriously?”Then came the even stranger part.“Teach me how to raise my daughter