Chapter 66

Maya

I watched as Jess unwrapped the gifts, cheerful and happy as my mind continued to whirl dangerously, full of doubts and fears. Nate was not far from me, holding Axel eating a piece of chocolate with his face all dirty.

I didn’t know what to do. This morning everything was normal. Nate came to pick me up at the hospital, we had a quickie in the car, and then we went home. We slept together, but when I woke up, he was acting weird. He barely looked at me or talked to me, got in his car, and by the time he got there, he was holed up in the office with his dad and Jess.

I didn’t know what to think anymore. I thought everything was fine between us, it was the only certainty I had, but apparently, it wasn’t.

Was he tired of me? Did he have doubts about us and about the step we had taken? 

Yet, with Axel, nothing had changed, on the contrary. He held him tight and left him to no one as if he was terrified that he would