Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0454

"Do you really have to go mom?" Lilly asks, her eyes shifting between me and the open suitcase on my bed.

I hated last last-minute rushes, but we have been so busy in the office these last couple of days, that every time I went home, all I could think about was sleeping. I was dead tired on my feet and I had no energy to do anything but eat and sleep.

"Yes," I tell her softly. "This is an important deal and your father has to be there to seal it."

"I still don't understand why I can't come with you? I want to see how daddy does it. How he closes a deal.'

I fold the last piece of clothing, which is a blue silk blouse, before placing it inside with the rest of the clothes. Once that is done, I zip up my suitcase before dropping it on the floor.

"You know you can't," I answer her while sitting on the bed.

"Why not?"

"Because you are still a child. That's why?"

"I'm not a child, I'm almost ten."

Rolling my eyes at the obvious lie, I pull her into my arms before kissing her soft cheeks.

"We both know you are eight. Lilly. Nowhere near ten... And besides, children aren't allowed for such things. It would be really unprofessional if your dad decided to bring you with us. Plus, there is the matter of school. We've already talked about this."

She pouts, but her brows pull together and she bites her lip. She does this when she's running things through her head and thinking.

"But I want to visit Tokyo," she whines.

I knew it. I just knew it. Lilly isn't the kind of child to throw a tantrum. She rarely does. The fact that she was lamenting about not being able to accompany us raised questions in my head. She wasn't a needy child, so I knew being gone for a couple of days wouldn't be a problem.

She surprised me when she began complaining the moment we told her that we would be traveling. For the past two days, she has pestered me, always asking why she can't come along.

"How about this, when you are on school break, we can plan a family trip to Tokyo?" Gabriel's voice sounds from behind.

We both turn to him. Lilly and I had been so lost in our conversation that none of us had heard him come in.

"Really?" Lilly asks, her voice brimming with glee.

"Sure." He replies, a huge smile aimed at her.

With a scream of happiness, Lilly rushes to Gabriel, almost falling in the process, and hugs him. Well, hugs his waist given how tall he is.

"Thank you daddy!" her voice is a bit muffled by the cotton of his clothes, but I can still hear her words.

"Anything for you."

Lilly lets go of her father and, with one last cry of happiness, she leaves the room. Probably to go and tell her nanny the good news.

"You are spoiling her, Gabriel." I say with a small smile.

He shrugs his shoulders as if it's nothing. "And I don't plan on stopping it. Lilly, along with all the other kids you give me, will be spoiled."

Stunned. Shocked. Surprised.

"Did you just-" I couldn't even finish the sentence.

Oh my god. He just insinuated that we were going to have more kids. That I'll give him more kids. That this marriage isn't ending any time soon.

Was he delusional? But then, I've come to realize that Gabriel goes a little crazy when he wants something.

"Yes" he smirks. "Now, are you done packing?"

My mind is still fried, but I manage to nod my head.

Gabriel has managed to surprise me at every turn. The more days I spend as his wife, the more I see a different side to him. I always thought that he was a cold and selfish bastard. In my head, I thought he was the devil incarnate. Now, though, I've gotten to see a side of him that I never saw, and it's clashing with what I always believed to be true.

Slowly by slowly, the surrounding walls have started tumbling down. Little by little he has started breaking through.

It scares me, because it hasn't even been that long since he walked back into my life. It scares me, because what if I fall again and he breaks me? It scares me, because he has this power over me, and I'm slowly finding it hard to resist him.

Would it make me weak if I just gave in?

I thought that I was over him. That I'd gotten rid of him in my heart. Being around him has taught me that I hadn't done shit. All I did was to hide my feelings deep down. Someplace I didn't have to think about them or acknowledge them.