Return To You: A Second Chance Small Town Romance by Charlotte McGinlay

Author:Charlotte McGinlay [McGinlay, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

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Rose – Four Days Later

I smile as Diego grabs hold of my necklace, grinning. I bounce him on my knee, keeping my whole focus on him, determined to ignore the person sitting next to me.

I can’t believe my baby is going to be one in three days; it just seems so surreal….

I feel like time is speeding up, and I hate it.

“Hey buddy, no breaking Momma’s necklace, Daddy bought that for her,” Noah says from beside me, making me tense before he leans over and lifts our son from underneath his armpits.

I watch as he places Diego in his lap, grinning from ear to ear, and I'm not too happy at how my stomach flips at the sight of them together.

Diego squeals with delight, cheering, “Da-da-da-da,” and grabs hold of Noah’s chain instead, the one I bought, making my stomach flip yet again because he still wears it.

Noah chuckles and looks my way, and we make eye contact, but I quickly look away, making him sigh before he gives his whole attention to our son.

“Dadadada,” Diego giggles again, and I roll my eyes at the little traitor. I got home from work yesterday, and Noah had taught him to say “dada,” and now that's all he likes to say.

I like it, even if I pretend not to. This is something I wanted for so long. I just didn’t expect my love for Noah to be there still, and stronger, if anything.

I need to control my emotions and my feelings. If he could walk away after four years, then he could do it again.

He could hurt me over and over, and I won’t take that, I deserve better.

Noah laughs, and I look over to see Diego trying to grab Noah’s tongue bar each time he sticks his tongue out. I can’t help but smile a little before looking away again.

I kept to my word; I’ve allowed Noah to have access to Diego because he’s his dad. For the past four days, he’s been at my apartment with our son, building a bond, while I worked. I did make it clear that Van, Al, Gina, and Piper are not to be anywhere near him, and Noah agreed. I also told him that if he leaves for a tour, and forgets about being a father, then I’ll request full custody.

Noah didn’t like it, but he understood.

Don’t go making yourself well known in my child’s life just to leave and become a once-a-month dad. I won’t have it. I told him just as much, and he did a good job of keeping quiet until I said that whatever girl he was seeing was not to go near our son until it was serious.

His face went so red, I thought steam would start coming from his ears.

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