That Christmas Eve_A Brother’s Best Friend Baby Romance by Mia Ford

Author:Mia Ford [Ford, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

20

Paisley

“Okay, Freddie, goodnight.” I kiss the top of his head one last time, relieved that he’s finally gone to sleep. Unfortunately, my plan not to let Josiah know that I have a baby has back fired, but it isn’t the end of the world. I can just play it down though; I don’t need to completely derail myself. “I’ll see you in the morning.”

I creep out of my son’s room, desperately trying not to make any noise so I don’t wake him, and I pause in the hallway with my head rested up against the wall, just trying to cool myself down. I’m going to have to face Josiah eventually and come up with some explanation that makes sense to him.

You can do this, I tell myself, trying to reassure myself. It’s going to be okay.

But still, my steps are slow as I walk down the stairs. I’m well aware that he can probably hear me and he’s wondering what on earth is wrong with me, but that doesn’t make me speed up. I’m just trying my hardest to roll my shoulders back, to hold my head up high, and to be confident. So, I’m a mom, does that matter? If it puts him off even having a conversation with me, then that speaks volumes, doesn’t it? It means that Maddie was right about me not letting him in right away because he simply cannot be trusted. Me and Freddie don’t need that.

“Sorry about that,” I say in a breezy tone as I stroll back into the living room. “He was just…”

But my sentence falls away because I find myself talking to no one. Just an empty couch. The butt print of where he was sitting not so long ago remains, but not him. Instead of allowing myself to freak out, I head into the kitchen, hoping that I have just caught him at a moment where he has gone into another room. That’s no big deal, even if he’s snooping around. There isn’t anything more shocking than Freddie he can discover.

“Josiah?” Now my mind is beginning to spin around. “Josiah, where are you?”

No one answers. My voice echoes off in to the distance. No one is answering me. I race to the front door and swing it open, but there is still no one there. It doesn’t settle over me right away, but eventually, it cracks over my head like an egg and creeps down my back in an icy way. He’s gone. Josiah isn’t here anymore. He realized that I have a child and he ran away without even saying goodbye like a scared little rat.

What the fuck? I lean forward and grip on to my stomach, pain radiating through my whole system. This is way worse than me being stripped away from Josiah, this is him choosing to reject me. He doesn’t want me.

I keep repeating those words over and over again in my mind, but they don’t sink in. They feel like they are being spoken about someone else, a situation completely unrelated to me.

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