Chapter 113-Where the hell is my wife?!
Watching in silence, Elijah smiled at Peach taking off her heels in the car, tossing them aside on the floor, and then sluggishly relaxing on the seat, admiring the slightly dark evening sky before letting out, “Today was exhausting.
Who knew running a company could be so much work, even for just a day?”
“So, you don‘t want to do it again?"
Elijah
responded, his voice jovial.
Immediately shaking her head, Peach met his eyes and replied, “No, no! That‘s not what I meant at all.
I love work… I do.
And this is not me being ungrateful… It was just
A laugh escaped from Elijah‘s lips at her reaction, and then his attention pulled away when the car came to a stop.
Then he turned back to Peach, took her shoe, and reached his hand for her feet, pulling them towards him gently and then slipping it onto her foot, mumbling, "
It‘s okay to be tired, darling.
You are not a robot.”
As Elijah slid the other shoe on, she sighed contentedly, smiling softly as she watched him and then let out, “Thanks.”
A moment later, when Elijah led Peach out of the car, her hand locked in his, they were a few feet away from the hotel entrance when a voice they both knew too well made them halt in their tracks.
“Elijah,"
Melina‘s voice sounded behind them as she approached, her steps light, and a smile lighting up her face.
Subconsciously, Peach squeezed Elijah‘s hand tightly, trying to keep herself calm.
After everything that has been going on with Melina, Peach never thought a sense of jealousy was something she would feel towards someone, especially someone who was practically family.
But knowing that Melina was Elijah‘s ex made her uneasy.
But she held it all together and then turned to see her cousin, focusing directly on Elijah‘s eyes with a smile.
“What do you want?"
Elijah asked, his tone dead of emotions and tone.
“After we talked on the phone the other day, I thought it would be best to see you to say this,"
with this look that
talked
wiggling her fingers silently in Elijah‘s grip, not knowing if she should pull away or
their fingers tightly and then glared at
step aside a bit… I need
again, ignoring
to spring anything on you just
between Elijah‘s eyebrows, and he said, “That‘s enough
hand in his, he turned on his heel and was about to leave when Melina grabbed his arm, forcing him back a bit, and holding his gaze
“Please, Elijah."
tone changed and
“Just for a second.”
tightened around his arm, Peach felt her heart beating faster than it ever had in her life, and when she
your hands
reaching for her wrist and yanking it
I can‘t do this
after him as
second, her woman intuition translating those words into one meaning, and it messed up her
with
as he turned to her, his eyes
“I am pregnant, Elijah!"
cried out, tears streaming
Peach was holding back came crashing down on top of her like a
cover her mouth with her hand,
her hand out of Elijah‘s grip, taking a couple of slow steps back, away from the two, tears staining her cheeks, and feeling
not, Melina… You were on pills, remember… claiming that
way that you
but
There‘s no way,”
“Yes.
pregnant while on the pill, okay…? I am just as shocked as you, Elijah! Because it has been eighteen plus weeks since our divorce,
“Stop, Melina.
this is one of your shitty tricks, I will not spare
body rigid and
standing a bit farther away from the two now… she didn‘t want to hear it… Even if it was before he loved her, before he touched her, before he married her… she didn’t want to hear that Melina was carrying
have done a lot of messed–up things in the time of our marriage, but this… this is not one of my stupid tricks… I didn‘t realize it soon because of all
But I…"
trailed off and glanced at Elijah with sad pleading
deep breath, she continued, “I took the test because
to tell you… And
I swear
started, his expression softening slightly, but his voice shook as he stared at
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