CEO Dante; The one for me
I know she's mine and I want to be there for her, for the both of you.
I tossed the phone across the bed and pressed the heels of my palms into my eyes, willing the ache to go away. But my mind had already gone rogue, flipping through old pages I didn’t want to revisit—his broken promises, the way he’d abandoned me when I needed him most, how cold his eyes had been the day he walked out.
That man wanted a second chance? A chance at what, exactly?
I spent the rest of the morning attending to Abigail, cleaning, Scrubbing counters, folding laundry that didn’t need folding, wiping down windows I hadn’t looked through in weeks. Anything to avoid the weight of his words and the silence after them.
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