All Chapters of My Ex-Fiance's Cousin is My Baby's Father: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Three simple words had changed Damon's entire night.I miss you too.He had stared at his phone after Lyra ended the call, almost afraid he'd imagined them.Then he'd sent her two messages.Then stop running from me.And:When you're ready, tell me the truth about Gail.For once, Damon didn't spend the rest of the night wondering whether Lyra cared.She had finally admitted it.She missed him.It wasn't forgiveness for everything that had happened.It wasn't a promise.But it was something.And for now, Damon was willing to hold on to that.The next morning, he woke with the same warmth in his chest.He reached for his phone.After thinking for a moment, he typed:Good morning. You were the last person on my mind last night and the first this morning.He hesitated.Then added:I hope today is good to you.He sent it before he could overthink it.Across the city, Lyra sat in the back of a cab with one arm around Gail.Today was Gail's first day of school.Her daughter kept playing with

Damon had waited six years for Lyra to stop running.He never expected the truth waiting behind her silence to change his entire life.Lyra sat across from him in the penthouse, her heart pounding.She had already told him about Vito.About Ruth.About the betrayal that had destroyed the future she'd once planned.But that wasn't the biggest reason she'd stayed away.Damon studied her.“There was something else.”Lyra slowly nodded.“Yes.”“Something that kept you away for six years?”Her fingers tightened around her glass.“Yes.”Damon became completely still.“Gail?”Hearing her daughter's name almost broke Lyra's courage.She put down the glass before she dropped it.“Yes.”Damon didn't ask the question again.He had already asked it once.Is Gail my daughter?

Lyra had finally stopped running.But as the cab carried her away from Damon's hotel, fear began chasing her again.Her hands wouldn't stop shaking.Rebecca's cold voice kept repeating in her mind.That will never happen.And worse, the warning she'd given Damon before Lyra left.Rebecca hadn't looked merely angry.She'd looked determined.Lyra pressed her hands together.What had she done?Only hours ago, she'd finally told Damon the truth.Gail was his daughter.She'd watched the shock cross his face.The pain.The realization that he'd missed five years of his child's life.And somehow, despite everything, he hadn't hated her.He'd asked if he could see Gail.Not as Mario.As her father.Lyra had said yes.Then Rebecca had arrived.Now everything felt complicated again.Her phone buzzed.Lyra jumped.For one hopefu

Damon had discovered he had a daughter.But before he could begin figuring out how to become Gail's father, he had another problem to deal with.Vito.And this time, Damon had evidence.Later that day, Damon sat across from his father in a private room.Without saying anything, he took out his phone and opened the security footage from his office.Then he handed it over.His father raised an eyebrow.“What am I looking at?”“Watch.”His father pressed play.The footage showed Vito entering Damon's office.He looked around carefully before moving toward the place where the listening device had been hidden.Then another person appeared with him.Damon's father leaned closer to the screen.“Who is that?”“I don't know.”The second person's identity wasn't clear enough to confirm.His father continued watching.

Damon had waited five years without knowing he had a daughter.Now that he knew, pretending to be only Mario was becoming unbearable.He stood in Lyra's living room, staring toward the kitchen.Gail's laughter floated through the house.His daughter.Even thinking those words made his chest tighten.Only hours ago, he'd learned the truth.Now he'd held her.Listened to her talk about school.Seen the picture she'd drawn of herself, Lyra, and him holding hands.And then she'd asked him the one question he hadn't been prepared for.Do you have a daughter?He'd answered truthfully.I do.But when Gail asked where his daughter was, Damon hadn't been able to tell her.Because his daughter had been standing right in front of him.Lyra walked into the living room.For several seconds, neither spoke.Then Damon looked at her.“I don't know how long I can