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 to

to argue, I can tell, but she also knows not to argue with me. Giving Gabriel one last look, she turns and goes to

and we had a rooftop area, so that's where I take him. I needed to get him to leave as soon as

feel my lungs constricting. I tried breathing in and then out, but it didn't work. I was on

shit right now. He

about my proposal..."

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

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

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?"

to do with him. Nothing to do with the life I left behind, especially knowing that those same people turned their backs on us once our

to my daughter and forget that Gabriel ever sought me out with his

the hell not?" He was beginning

so what is so important that would make you seek me out years after our divorce?" I was really curious. Something drove him to want this, and I want to

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 agree," he evades the

I'm going to change

deep voice sends

want to turn

giveaway, Harper," A muscle ticks in his jaw, and the dangerous atmosphere that