Love Disregarded by Rachel Blaufeld

Author:Rachel Blaufeld [Blaufeld, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rachel Blaufeld Publishing
Published: 2020-07-07T18:30:00+00:00

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“Piper, can we talk?” I said, interrupting her as she pulled down ingredients to bake cookies.

“Mom, I should do this. Aston said the car would be here later.”

My heart cracked in two over what I was about to do.

Piper’s world had already been destroyed once because of the divorce, and here I was about to shatter it all over again. Funny that Seth asked about her period; Piper and I had the talk about eight months ago. What to expect, what it meant, and all of that. She knew how babies were made and where they came from, but this conversation would be on a whole different level.

Fuck.

Out loud, I said, “Piper, honey, we’ll get it done. I promise. We need to talk for a few.”

She turned toward me, her face pinched with concern. “Is everything okay? Are you okay?” Running over to me, she took my hand in hers. “Mom? Say something.”

I hated how much worry she was filled with—how she felt she had to mother me.

“I’m fine, sweetie. This is good news, I swear. Come on, let’s sit.”

With my arm wrapped around her, I guided her to the window seat. Seemed appropriate, considering how much time I’d spent thinking about Aston in that exact spot.

“Piper, this isn’t easy for me to tell you,” I said. “But it’s good stuff. It may not seem that way, but it is.”

“Are you and dad getting back together?”

Drawing on every bit of my self-control, I kept my expression schooled. That wasn’t where I thought her head would go, but I should have expected it. “No, we aren’t getting back together, sweetie. But this is sort of what I wanted to talk with you about. Your dad and me, and you. There’s some stuff that you need to know.”

“Oh.” She dropped her gaze to our hands, our fingers entwined.

I had to get on with it. Period.

“First off, I love you. So much. You’re my whole world. And Dad loves you, and what I’m about to tell you doesn’t change that,” I said, taking some liberties when it came to Seth and his feelings for Piper. “Here’s the thing. I knew Aston a long time ago, before I met your dad. And at one point, we were really in love.”

“So, you can be in love again now. You’re divorced, and you said you and Dad aren’t getting back together. I get it. I watch TV.”

I tried not to squeeze my eyes shut in pain. Piper wasn’t making this easy on me.

“Well, yes. That’s true. We could love each other now . . . maybe we never stopped. But there’s something else. When we loved each other a long time ago, we couldn’t be together. There were reasons . . .”

“What reasons?” she said. Of course my smart little cookie would ask all the right questions.

“Well, Aston’s dad didn’t care for me. We were from two different worlds. As you know, he’s very rich, and that doesn’t make him a bad person, but . . .

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