Ex-Husband's Regret

Staring outside through the window, I tried to ignore the imposing man next to me. My mind was on everything that was awaiting me in the country where I was born. When I left everything and everyone I knew behind, I thought I would never return.

I'm not ashamed to say that I was not planning to let Gabriel know he had fathered a child. Don't look at me like that, I had my reasons, and I know you've already guessed some of them.

Lilly was a secret I planned to take to my grave. Apart from her unique grey eyes, she looked like me and nothing like her father. Only people who knew the Woods would guess from her eyes that she was one of them... And what was the chance of meeting their acquaintances when I was no longer part of that world?

As much as soap operas try to romanticize things, the truth is that the rich rarely mingle with the poor. Most of them have a stick up their asses and consider them low-class. It's sad to say that my parents were also like that, but Andrew and I weren't. Thanks to our house manager, Mia. She partly raised us since, most of the time, my parents were out of the country on business. She's the one who taught us to never look down on others and to always be kind.

I feel a pang when I remember her. She was like a second mother to me. Just like with everyone else, life took her away from me a few months before I turned seventeen. I know fate hates me, but sometimes think she cursed me, otherwise, why is it that almost everyone I cared about and loved is dead?

Pushing those thoughts away, I focused on the scenery below me. Dwelling on them will just make me bitter with life. I can't allow that, not when I still have Lilly. She's my happiness and peace.

"When did it happen?" his voice pulled me back, making me turn towards him.

I was confused about what he was asking. It was evident in my

"Lilly," he simply stated.

finally dawned on me what he was asking. This is another thing I never thought I would talk about. Mostly because I am embarrassed. I do love Lilly with all my heart. I'm just embarrassed

sleeping

hiding it. He already knew of Lilly's existence, so there was no point in

that you don't, you were drunk," I told him, unable to look into his

saying you took advantage of me when I was

anyone would ever take

didn't." I began. "It had been Noah's birthday, and you left in the afternoon