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##Chapter 28

Hugh Mikhail



Once we got home, I took Charlie to watch tv with me on the couch. Rick said he had some errands to run and didn't come with me. I put my son on the floor and started to watch him as he walked around the room talking in slurred words and fiddling with things.

At one point he walked towards me stopping at my legs and looking at my face, he smiled. I almost exploded with love, how could it be so perfect? I smiled back at him, stroking his hair.

“Look, son. Daddy has something very important to say to you. I said and he smiled again.

- Daddy. I widened my eyes. Fuck. He said daddy. Cum. He said daddy!!!

I almost freaked out.

My eyes filled with tears of emotion, I then took Charlie in my lap and started kissing him nonstop.

"Speak again, speak again." I asked , tickling him.

- Daddy! he repeated with a laugh.

Oh my God!

"I love you, I love you very, very, very much!" I hugged him and kissed him more times.

- Love love. — imitated me . My heart nearly melted.

— Yeah, that's right... I love you! Speak, I love you.

- I love.

— What a desire to crush! I exclaimed.

I needed to remember to thank Diana when I went to see her, to thank her for having generated this wonderful little being who managed to make a sad day happy. I no longer felt distressed thinking about the conversation I would have with his mother later, all I wanted at the moment was to stay with him, hugging him and kissing him nonstop.

— Now seriously, daddy needs to talk to you... —he was busy fiddling with the button on my jacket — I want you to know that if daddy stays away for a few days, it doesn't mean I'm going to abandon him, he is well?

- Daddy!

“Yes, it's Daddy. — I gave her another kiss on her cheek — All I want most is for me, you, mom and some of your little brothers to be together one day, all together as one big family. But... If mom doesn't want to be with me anymore, I'll have to stay away for a while, but I'll never leave you. I promise. I kissed the small hand.

Charlie looked at me and for a split second it looked like he understood everything I said, if it wasn't just a baby.

— I will never forget you, nor will I abandon you, I will always visit you and we will have a lot of fun together. I want to teach you how to fight and ride a motorcycle, okay?

My son rested his head on my chest as if he was comforting me, I couldn't contain myself any longer and let a few tears fall while hugging the most important person in my life.

It didn't take long for him to fall asleep and we stayed together for the rest of the afternoon. It was almost dusk when I got Charlie to take him back, I also took a shower, dressed in jeans and a black button-up shirt. I put on some perfume and left for Diana's house.

On the way I decided to send a message letting her know that I was going to deliver the baby to her house, that I wouldn't be going to the store, so she would be there when I arrived or she would arrive soon after me.

As I was on foot and she had a car, I was right on target when I said she would be there, the house lights were on and the black BMW was parked in the driveway. With my heart racing, I stepped onto the lawn heading towards the door to ring the bell. When I got closer there was another car in front of her, a dark blue Toyota Corolla.

My stomach contracted. There was someone else there and the only one that came to mind was Caleb. This realization made me even sadder, while I had wasted two years of my life in prison , she was free and moved on just as I wanted. Because that was why I did what I did, so that she would move on, that she would be happy.

I pressed the button on the side of the door and in less than a minute it was open. There was Diana, prettier every day, I thought of smiling at her but soon a man with glasses appeared, it was the guy from the beach, Caleb. He put his hand on her slim waist and looked at me.

"Why didn't you take him to the store as we'd agreed?" he asked. I swallowed hard looking at the motherfucker's hand on her waist.

“Because I didn't want to. This situation is a big shit and I don't see any harm in bringing my son to his mother's door and not in a damn store where I would hand him over to someone I don't even know.

"Give it to me." — took him from my arms giving him several kisses — I was already missing you, my love.

Caleb cleared his throat.

“Like Diana said, you should have followed the deal they made and gone to the store to deliver it. — go fuck yourself asshole.

“From today I want to take it from you and give it back to you. I demanded speaking directly to Diana.

“You are in no position to demand anything around here. Disappeared for two years and now appears out of nowhere wanting to do what he wants? Caleb said.

“What are you meddling with?” This is about Charlie, who is my son with Diana, so that means it's between me and her. I gestured as my blood began to heat.

I would have to hold myself back from breaking his face in front of the baby.

— Charlie is also my son, it may not be blood but I consider myself as such, since I was here for him and his mother when they needed it most and you weren't. - Caleb said taking the boy from Diana's lap.

The baby didn't seem to like it very much, it started to squirm and cry.

“He'll never be your son, not considerate or shit. He is MY son, get your hands off him right now. — I went over to Caleb and took Charlie from his arms — He doesn't even like you, look how he cried in your lap, he never cried with me.



"Hugh, give me Charlie." Diana asked.

"For what, Diana?" For you to deliver to this playing daddy? Charlie has a father and it's me! You know very well the reason for my absence. I didn't even know I had a son and I don't accept that any son of a bitch throws it in my face, because I was the one who felt it, the one who suffered was me. I didn't disappear for two years because I wanted to!

“You shouldn't have come back. You just made Diana suffer, now that she's finally moved on you come back and screw it up like you did two years ago?

— I just don't break your face because I have my son in my lap, but you know what Caleb? It's going to be fuck! You're only saying that because you know you'll never have this woman completely.

"Shut the fuck up, both of you!" Give me my son here and go away. “ She took it from me.

“Very well, Diana. Your little boyfriend is right, maybe I was wrong to come back. But I'm glad I came back, because now I know I'm the father of an incredible child and it's because of him that I'm leaving here at the weekend in search of a better future, so that when he grows up, he'll also have something inherited from his father. I lied in parts.

She then glared at me.

"Are you leaving?"

- Yes. I'm just going back to see my son. I said looking seriously into his eyes.

She was silent, I approached her only to give Charlie one last kiss to finally walk away. Swallowing my pain, I crossed the street and started walking back to my house. It seemed that I was really determined to accept any proposal at that event, just to stay away from her, or rather, away from her happy with another man.

When I got home, I ripped off my clothes and stepped into the shower, defeated. I lost her. A lost Charlie toy on the floor made me cry, at least I had him . A few hours later I tried to sleep but insomnia decided to visit me again that night.

I sat on the bed, frustrated looking at the phone that there was no message or call. It was almost two in the morning when I was startled by a knock on the door, I rushed to open it already preparing for self-defense when I saw the image of a distraught Diana holding our sleeping baby in her lap.

She walked past me in silence, and looking all around walked to the bed, putting Charlie sleeping on it. I stood looking at everything still confused, shaking.

"I was sure you 'd show up that day..." A tear trickled down her face. “I've waited for hours for you to at least say goodbye to me. I kept replaying our night together, how you were affectionate, how kind, how you worshiped me and in the end you said I was yours. I clung to the idea that you liked me, that you had fallen in love too and that you would regret what you said earlier, that you would take it back. But you let me go.

My heart squeezed.

“I was really, really bad. It felt like someone in my family had died. My parents and my brother were very worried about me and forced me to see a therapist, after a while I started to feel better, but you were still there, in my mind and in my heart. After three months I decided to start going out with Caleb, I told him everything about you and the same day I found out I was pregnant. I had never had any symptoms, nothing, I didn't even suspect I could be pregnant even though we both didn't use anything the night we got together.

She stopped talking, I stayed silent giving her the time she needed to get out everything she wanted. For a few minutes we just watched the love of our lives sleeping. So innocent... Such pure love.

— At the time I was terrified, I thought it was a medical error but I ended up realizing that this was one of the consequences of sex without prevention. The next day I was already in love with the idea of being a mother, I counted the seconds for him to be born soon. And when he was born... I realized that he was identical to you, that's why the name Charlie, because you remind me a lot of the actor Charlie Hunnam and even though I hated you, he was your son, a piece of you.

I smiled. Even with everything, she still thought of me when collecting the child's name.

“Caleb was with me the whole time, but as a friend. From the beginning he knew there was no room for another man in my heart, he knew that I was obsessed with you, that I loved you and still wanted you.

"And when did you decide to give him a chance at something more?" I asked with a lump in my throat.

“When Charlie turned one. So much time had passed and I needed someone, I needed the warmth of another man, I couldn't stand only your memories on my skin anymore, I dreamed of you touching me almost every night, it hurt me because you weren't coming back . So three months ago I decided that I would try to see him as someone more than a friend.

“I hate to admit it, but he was with you when I should have been. I wanted to punch him in the face when he said that Charlie was his son too, this boy will only have me as a father. But in the end he turned out to be better for you than me. - I regretted .

— He was very kind all this time, but I always made sure to make it clear that he could not see Charlie as a son, that even if you never came back, only you were his father. I nodded satisfied.

- You love him? I asked, not preparing to be shot in the chest.

Diana hesitated.

— I'm confused about my feelings, your return has turned my world upside down. Everything I thought it was, it's not.

— I just wanted to do you a favor by getting you out of the mess that was my life, I couldn't stay with someone so special having an uncertain future, not knowing if I would live or die in the reckoning.

“I would wait for you anyway. I would wait all the time in the world for you.

— You were getting out of a disgraceful relationship, you had just been deceived by a crooked cretin, you didn't need to get into another hole.

“Now that I know the truth, I don't hate you anymore, I just still don't know if I can trust you not to leave again. I suffered like I never imagined I would suffer.

"Princess... Just tell me, what do I have to do to get her back?" Do I still have a chance? Am I too late? I just need those answers to leave you alone once and for all.