Ex-Husband's Regret

Fuck! Why me? Why now? Why today, of all days? Fate has already established that she hates me, but this is too much even for that bitch. Why the hell did she loathe me so much?

To be honest, I'm afraid of looking up. Afraid of looking at both Gabriel and Lilly. I try my best to calm down my erratic, beating heart, but it's no use. I felt like I was going to have a damn heart attack. I could literally feel the sweat running down my back.

My anger at Gabriel was already gone, and in its place was pure, undiluted fear. When I woke up, I never imagined that this would happen. That Gabriel would suddenly come to my house out of the blue. That he and Lilly would meet.

At first, I was careful because I knew Lilly was asleep due to her cold, but after what Gabriel revealed, I completely forgot and blew up. That was my fucking fault. I didn't have anyone to blame for this cluster fuck.

"Mom?" her sweet voice calls me, and I look up, unable to deny my daughter.

Looking at her, I'm unable to form a sentence.

When I don't answer, she turns to Gabriel and asks, "Who are you, and why are you fighting with my mom?"

Their eyes clash and I see my Lilly take a step back as if something has just rammed into her. That pulls me out of a trance.

"Lilly, go to your room," I say unsteadily, and she turns when she hears my voice.

I can see the questions running through her mind. She was a sharp girl, and I know there is no escaping the curiosity that she's sure to hit me with.

"But mom..."

never shouted at her before, but I was frustrated. "Go

with me. Giving Gabriel one last look, she turns and goes to her room,

she'll definitely be eavesdropping, so I grab Gabriel and drag him outside. We lived on the last floor, and we had a rooftop area, so that's where I take him. I needed to get him to leave as soon

I start pacing. Panic had taken over. I could literally feel my lungs constricting. I tried breathing in and then out, but it didn't work. I was on

looks unbothered. Maybe he didn't notice anything, right? If he had, he would be giving me shit right now. He would be spitting fire, ready to destroy. Yeah,

about my proposal..."

he didn't notice anything, but then the fact that the only thing that's on his mind is the damn proposal really surprises me. I mean, how could he not

answer, Gabriel," I tell him after I've

I've given you a chance to own the company, a chance to get out of your poverty-stricken life and once again become wealthy, a chance to come back into the society you were born into you still won't accept my proposal?" He looks puzzled. As if he really couldn't understand how I could turn him

left behind, especially knowing that those same people turned their backs on us once our company went bankrupt. "Yes."

go back to my daughter and forget that

not?" He was beginning to

divorce?" I was really curious. Something drove him to want this, and I want to know what it is, so I continue to question him. "What brought you running to my doorstep, Gabriel? If I

but I see it in his eyes and in the way his jaw clenches. I was right, there is a reason why he wants me to agree to his proposal, and it's something big. Something he can't escape. "That's not your fucking concern. What I want is for you to

me. If he doesn't want me to know, then that's okay. It's not like it would change my mind. I had already made my decision, and there's no way I'm going to change it. "Then I think we

I wouldn't notice?" His deep voice sends shivers

want to turn around, but I

are a dead giveaway, Harper," A muscle ticks in his jaw, and