Chapter 75

Maya

I woke up to the sound of my cell phone vibrating on my bedside table, and I realized I had a blanket on me. Axel slept happily beside me as he had never slept before.

The night before, I fell asleep exhausted from a cry that I didn’t even know what it was for.

Or rather, yes. I felt empty. As if everything that had been the past few weeks was just huge bullshit.

Yet, in my heart, I knew it was not so. I knew that Nate loved me, he showed me in every possible and unimaginable way, he adopted Axel, raised him, and would raise him as his son. But if he loved me so much, why didn’t he tell me the truth?

Why didn’t you tell me your fears? I was fucking terrified, too, that Brad might have some claim on Axel, and I would do anything to protect him from him, to keep him from even getting anywhere near us.

I would have supported his idea and done the same, but I wanted to know!

I didn’t want to get fucked up and walk down the aisle like an idiot. I would have told him yes! I would alwa