Mr Billionaires Secret Baby

Chapter 70
Dante's POV.
Some thing was different about Sophia.
I sensed it the night I had drove her back to the city and settled her in to her
home again. There was definitely some shift in her demeanor. Obviously, that
night, with every thing that had gone on, I didn't think too much about it. What
had been witnessed had not been an easy sight to digest let alone the addition of
what Sophia had to endure for the days that she was held captive.
Pheobe was dead and even though that had not been a part of the plan, it turned
out to be necessary. I knew that they would try some thing and it was exactly why
I had back up. If they attempted any thing, matters would be sought the way it
had been seen fit and that was exactly what had happened.
As for Demetri, the man would never come to see the light of freedom for as long
as he lived. I made certain of that and there would be no change to his sentence.
All of this I chalked as the reason that Sophia was so distant and closed off and I
let it be. However, when she began ignoring my calls, I had grown a little
suspicious that perhaps there was more to her mood that met the eye.
Of course, that assumption was confirmed when I showed up at her home and
saw her face immediately turn from bright and happy as she spoke to Hayley to
disappointment at my sudden
presence.
I thought we had moved past all of this, that we had made some solid progress in
moving forward not only when it came to Hayley but with us. The last night that
we shared in Greece meant some thing. I saw it in her eyes. She felt exactly
what I had felt yet, now as I looked at her in bed, it was hard to imagine those
emotions in her eyes again.
Every thing about her screamed cold and unapproachable but it was only that
way for me. Adam had shown up at some point during the evening and Sophia
interacted with him just fine. It had irritated me beyond belief because I felt like
the third person in her catch up session just lurking about like an angry warden.
I couldn't stomach to see her behave so friendly with Adam yet so aloof with me.
I wanted to leave. and head to some other part of the house but I couldn't. Some
thing in me refused to leave them alone. Their relationship never failed to eat at
me especially right at this moment.
Hayley served as a good distraction as she explained all the flowers that they
kept in the garden which she had inspected herself, I tried to lend her an ear and
I succeeded until Sophia’s melodious laughter reached my ears at some thing
Adam had said and I felt my jaw clench painfully.
Just once I would like to knock the air out of Adam. It would not be a challenge by
any means and I could easily take him but that would only give Sophia another
reason to hold on to her displeasure
with me.
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Was I jealous? F*** yes!
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I couldn't think straight at the moment. Every ounce of my being wanted to storm
across the room and drag Adam out by his collar like a dog that wasn't allowed
inside.
“When you recover, we should go out. My treat.” Adam offered and Sophia
nodded like she was actually eager about it.
“Oh, please, it is always your treat but I would like that. I'm pretty bored being on
bed rest even though it has only been two days.” She complained to Adam who
nodded pitifully.
Adam already knew what had happened. I could tell by the lack of curiosity he
held from the time he had arrived. He showed up fully informed and in care mode
for Sophia. How many time did she had to reject him for him to leave her alone?!
When the time arrived for him to leave, I couldn't have been happier. I resisted
the urge to kick him out myself but once he left, it still did very little to change my
mood.
I thought that now was the chance for me to speak to Sophia and try and figure
out what was going on but the doctor showed up to dress her wounds and
commented on how it was healing well before he had left. I had taken Hayley out
of the room when Dr Hannigan had been present. She didn't need to see the
damage on her mother. It wouldn't bring any good to her.
Hayley hopped back in to the room and I followed her once I'd seen the doctor
out.
“Mama, do you want to have dinner with us in the dining room?” Hayley offered
innocently but it was probably not possible so soon.
Sophia smiled at Hayley still going in as if I had not been present at all. “I really
wouldn't mind that that I can’t exactly walk properly until I'm fully healed. She
tried to explain gently but Hayley's look if determination was strong.
“What if daddy carried you to the dining room? would that work?” Sophia looked
mortified by the idea of that and shook her head.
I wouldn't be too comfortable with that.” She dismissed the suggestion like I
hadn't touched her
before.
I watched her every move from the door way. She was conscious of me, I knew
that much. I could see it in her expressions and the way she made sure not to
venture her gaze further than the bed even by mistake. She felt my gaze on her
and it made her nervous but she never crumbled beneath
ait
“Your wheel chair will help her, Hayley.” My voice was to thick with a mix of things
that it sounded unfamiliar to my own ears. “I can help her on and we can wheel
her to the dining room. Hayley was on board with that idea, obviously, but Sophia
pursed her I*ps skeptically.
“Aren't we forgetting the stairs going down to the dining room?” I caught her
condescending note in her words and grit my teeth. “It is fine. I'm happy here for
now and you're more than welcome to
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eat by me like we have been these past two days. Her invitation extended to
Hayley and Hayley only.
I saw Hayley look at me conflicted since she wanted to cat with both of us at
once but it was not proving possible tonight.
After insisting that I was not hungry and it would be fine if Hayley ate with Sophia
in her room, she agreed. I helped her carry the plates of food to the room that the
cook had prepared. They had eaten and I stayed close to the window overlooking
the large estate trying not to snap.
After they had eaten Hayley grew tired and I saw her to the bathroom to brush
her teeth then to her room to get changed in to pajamas. She asked me to tuck
her in to her bed and read her a story which I happily did.
I realised some thing about spending time with Hayley. It didn’t matter what was
going on in my life or what stressors I would be facing but the minute I was with
her and she looked at me with the more adoring orbs possible like I put the stars
in the sky just by being present and with her, there was nothing that felt unfixable.
She had fallen asleep before I made it to the end of the fairy tale about the frog
Prince and I carefully saw myself out of her room, closing the door behind me.
I moved down the hall way with intent. With Hayley asleep now, I could finally
confront her about why she was so cold towards me.
When I entered her room again, her eyes widened slightly just looking at me like
she had forgotten entirely that I was even around. I stopped at the foot of her bed
crossing my arms over my chest.
“I- I thought you had left by now. She muttered tightly and it sent me jaw
clenching once again.
“I will leave but not now.” She heard the firmness in my words and her I*ps
pressed In together to form a thin line.
“Itis late.” She persisted. “Won't it be-"
My head snapped up to glare at her. “I get it, Sophia, you want me to leave.” I
snapped at her but then inhaled heavily trying to calm myself down.
“You have not said any thing to me in conversation since what happened. You
don’t want to look at me, you barely even take note of me when I'm around. What
is it? What is it that I have done that's so horrible?” She blinked like she had
been caught of guard by my outburst.
“Was I not supposed to have saved you and left you to the wolves?” I questioned
when she did not. show any sign of speaking but her nostrils had flared and the
streak of anger that I knew all too well appeared in her orbs.
“I wouldn't have had to be saved had it not been for you, Dante.” She spat out
and I felt a frown form on my forehead. “Had it not been for you and the decisions
you have made, I would have never been a victim to such a horrible thing.” Her
voice had risen an octave as she stared at me with
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daggers in her eyes.
“What?” I asked in shock.
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She nodded. “You heard me. In all the time that I have known you, chased after
you, I was alwave made to be the fool at the end of it and you had no problem at
all making me collateral damage to your mistakes. If any thing, you always found
away to pin it on me.” Sophia blazed feeding in to her fury.
“You had no issue using me in marriage to save yourself when Pheobe walked
out on you. It was I who had been more committed to you and where did that see
me? Divorced and pregnant with no support.” She threw that in my face and a
low, warning growl escaped my I*ps.
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But she did not back down. “Then
what about recent times. You
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like a fool all over again. Getting
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can no longer do it. Not when it had
come so close to costing me my life.
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I stared at her, stunned and speechless at how she perceived things. It frightened
me that she was so sharp tongued but what terrified me the most was the look of
absolute disdain and done that she was with me.
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Dante. There never was. It was
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that Spiral any longer. I know that we
have shared some things recently
together but I think that is where our
story stops. I have been an idiot
before to let you make me your fool
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Her words felt like a dagger had been plunged in to my chest, kicked in, then
twisted causing immense pain. Only she could hurt me this way because only
she had such control over my emotions but she was done with me.
I saw it in her eyes, in the firmly set jaw of hers, and I knew that no amount of
convincing her was going to change her mind.
But she was utterly wrong if she thought that even for a split second that I was
going to let her she wanted some space, fine, so be it, but I was going to win her
back even if I had to die trying.
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I was blinded before to what I wanted but now I knew it with utmost certainty. I
messed up. I knew it and I wasn’t going to deny it but I was going to win her back
the way she had always deserved.
from the start.
Dreame