Pregnant With Twins: My CEO’s Tricky Love

“Maisie, I’m sorry.”

Seeing the first line, Maisie almost didn’t have the courage to read on.

She set the letter aside, covered her mouth, and wept.

Robert could hear his mother’s sobs from outside. Not loud wailing, but muffled, quavering sobs.

In the end, his mother was still hung up over his father. If she could set him aside, maybe she’d be happier later on.

Robert didn’t want his mother to drown in the past.

After crying for an untold period of time, Maisie mustered the strength to read on.

Her eyes were immensely swollen, and her sobs from earlier had her body trembling.

But she’d already taken up the letter before her, and continued to read.

“I once thought that we’d live respectfully together, or become a pair of grudgeful people in our middle years, with you living your own days, and me mine. I was busy with business every day, and you were busy raising our children. It was a mild, boring life to me.

“I married you because I found you elegant and proper, and would make a good wife. Before I met that woman, I’d never loved anyone before. I never felt like I’d feel anything for any woman in this life. To be honest, before meeting her, I didn’t believe in love at first sight, so I felt like I could live the rest of my life with you.

“From since the time I grew up, I’d planned my life well. I thought that after I retired as I planned at fifty and let my son take over the family business, I’d travel the world as a drifter. But that was all my own imagination. I fell in love with that woman the moment I saw her, to the point of obsession.

“I know the things I’ve done are insane, and I know that doing this is letting you down and letting our son and daughter down. But I’d never wanted to live the life I wanted before. It’s the most selfish I’ve ever been in my life, and it resulted in you being hurt so badly. But I still left and decided never to come back, until Robert had his incident, and you had to find me anyway.

“You see, that’s how cold and selfish I am. If I had any pity or love or sympathy for you, I wouldn’t have made that decision. That was how cold I was to begin with. I’m not worth your entire life’s longing, or your entire life’s grudge, and I’m not worth staying in the Simpsons for. I’m planning on having someone give you this letter after my death. I think that if I said these things to you while I was alive, you’d only sneer at me, say I was looking for excuses, and mock me for being a hypocrite.

“But if you’re reading this letter, I must have already departed this world. I’m dead now. Go live your own life. Don’t waste your hate and your emotions on me. In the end, the one person I feel like I should be the sorriest for is our daughter. I didn’t know all that would have happened to her. You see? The person I’m sorriest for isn’t even you, but I still felt like I should apologize to you.

the life you want from

ended there,

rolled her wheelchair over

man’s faint smile at her, and

It had all

was only her being so invested like a fool, believing that if she worked hard

just

outside for a long time, and

a long while, the door opened, and

you all

his father had written something that could

ask you. Are you planning on being together with Georgia

silently. If he said any more, she might have gotten

Maisie scoffed.

me in his letter? He wants me to live the life I want to live. Well, the life I want to live one where my son and Casey Allen’s daughter are completely separate, and never tangled together.

then there’s no need for the two of us

his mother would have made him choose, but Robert still

do you know that Casey had never raised Georgia, and they’d been separated for over twenty years? For all this time, Casey never thought of Georgia, because she’d forgotten everything, been lied to by my father, then lived for over twenty years under another

“Are you defending them?”

Maisie sneered.

and only wanted to live his life as he wanted. Now I’m going to be like your father and live the life I want. If you leave Georgia, I’ll still recognize

as a son, Mom, I’ll still care for you, protect you, and love you in my own way. No matter if you disown me by word, or by announcing it to the newspapers, or by no longer permitting you to see me, I can care for you

I won’t ignore you or leave you for it. No matter where you go, as

words had Maisie so angry her

Lane over having me as a mother. How could I

choosing to abandon me. But I won’t distance myself

Casey Allen’s daughter and pricking me where it hurts every day is