Ex-Husband's Regret

Gabe.

"Mom!" I yelled and rushed to her.

She was lying motionlessly on the floor. No one had to tell me that it was the shock of seeing Lilly that caused her to faint. Just like with me, she only had to take one look at those grey eyes to know Lilly was a Wood.

I gently slap her cheek, but it does nothing to wake her up. Sliding one hand under her shoulders, and the other one under her knees, I lifted her into my hands and carried her to the nearest sofa. "Dad! Rowan!" I shouted for them, afraid to leave my mother alone.

"Is she okay?" Lilly asks in a small and vulnerable voice. "Did I do something wrong? Is she unconscious because of me?"

The tears swimming in her eyes were my undoing. In such a short time, she had become embedded in the very fiber of my being. Seeing her crying hurt me. I honestly don't fucking think I've ever loved someone as much as I loved Lilly. Even my own twin couldn't compete in my heart with her.

Before I could answer, Harper stepped in.

"No, darling" she answered as she placed a wet towel on my mom's forehead. I had not even realized that she had gotten one.

"Then why did she faint after seeing me?" Lilly demanded; her eyes firmly fixed on her grandmother.

"It's just a shock", Harper pulled our daughter into her arms. "Remember how I told you Gabriel didn't know about you? His family also didn't know. She was just shocked to see you, baby. You did nothing wrong."

"Your mother is right. You

is going on here?" My dad's booming voice

hide behind Harper. It was fucking weird seeing this. It's like the confident girl I was used to just disappeared into thin air. My

hell is going on here?" he asked again, moving to kneel before

Lilly, because his whole focus is on my mother. He ran his finger gently down

am not in the fucking mood to answer him yet. Not when Lilly

my dad begged,

opened. Shooting up on the

happened? Why am

I was supposed to be in the kitchen" she began while looking at my dad. She then shook her head as if to clear it "I had the strangest dream.

mouth shut to stop myself from laughing. It's fucking hilarious even though the matter

time to come

fuck she didn't faint this

a dream!" Mom then closes her eyes and exhales. "Or maybe it still is.

body to

on his face. His eyes widened in the same way mom's did. They