Chapter Forty-Two
Kye
As the song goes, “What a Difference a Day Makes.” I was lying here in my bed, with my Bonita in my arms. Yesterday morning, it had been just a dream; now it was my reality, and one that I still couldn’t quite believe. After she made me submit to her after reading my letter, I had let her sleep for a while. I just wanted to be close to her and feel her in my arms. I didn’t care about anything else apart from having her next to me. When we finally got out of bed, we enjoyed a lunch together and then sat down to talk.
I finally told her everything. The good, the bad, and the downright ugly. I needed her to understand what had driven me to cast her aside like I did. Knowing that she had wanted to tell me about her pregnancy the morning I threw her out, and that she had been speaking to Chrissy when I had been listening in, broke my heart. They always say hindsight is a wonderful thing, but at the time, there was no way I would have done anything else. I had reached a breaking point in my life, and it took me nearly losing her to realise that my life couldn’t continue the way it was.
I told her all about my counselling session and how I was going to continue to have them for as long as I needed. She even offered to come to one with me, if Stuart felt it would be a benefit. I felt like a completely different man this morning. My life was finally starting to look up and I had a reason to live. Well, three reasons. I was already making plans in my head of what I was going to do to the apartment to make it ready for the twins. How I was going to decorate two of the rooms so they would eventually each have one of their own. I had everything I wanted in my life, except for one thing.
I had reconciled with everyone that mattered to me, except my own family. My brother and I were now talking, but I still had to make amends to the rest of my family and Sofia. I hoped that Abigail would agree to stay with me for a couple of weeks before we headed back to the UK. I wanted to spend some quality time with her as well as my family, and I was hoping to start that today. Even though it was early, I had already messaged Mateus and asked him if he minded meeting me at my parents’. I wanted at least one somewhat friendly face there with me, as well as Abigail.
She had told me she had gotten to know my family well over the past couple of weeks, and spent a lot of time with my mum, Aliciana, and Sofia. That they had made her feel extremely welcome and that my mum was already seeing her as another daughter. I had been lying here for the past hour thinking about what she had said, and it made the decision easy. I had to be part of their lives too. Today, I was going to swallow my pride and go and see them. I hadn’t noticed that Abigail had woken and was now smiling at me as I lay here thinking.
“What has got you so deep in thought there?”
I jumped slightly as she spoke, not expecting to hear her voice. She giggled slightly in my arms. It was one of the sweetest sounds I had heard in ages. I smiled down and her and gave her a soft kiss on the lips.
“I was just thinking about today. About the plans I have made.”
“Oh, and you didn’t think to include me in those plans? What if I have plans of my own today?”
“And what would those plans be, mistress?”
Her laugh reached right down into my soul. How I could ever have thought I could live without this woman in my life, I would never know. But now that I had her again, I was never letting her go.
“Well, I was planning on keeping my gorgeous boyfriend in bed with me all day.”
“Much as that sounds like an amazing day, I really have something I need to do…” I hesitated before I continued, unsure of how she was going to react. “I’ve arranged to meet Mateus at my parents’ house. I was hoping—”
I didn’t get a chance to finish my sentence before she flung her arms around me and gave me a huge kiss.
“That’s brilliant news, and if your next statement was to ask me if I would come along with you, then the answer is, of course, yes.”
I let out a sigh of relief. I was worried she wouldn’t want to come with me. I had thought after everything we had been through that she might actually leave me to face my family alone. Almost a punishment for the way I had treated her. I knew things between us were good now, but women also held grudges for a long time. I thought this would be one of those occasions where she might bring up what I had done to her to make me feel a little of my own medicine.
“Thank you, Bonita. You don’t know how much that has taken a weight off my mind. I need to reconcile with my family, especially with the twins on the way.”
I placed my hand on her stomach. I wasn’t sure I would ever get used to the idea that I was about to become a father, and to twins! It was certainly not something that had been on my mind the past eighteen years, but now that it was a fact, I couldn’t have been happier. I knew how important family was to my parents and siblings. Me not being in their life would certainly have been hurting them, and there was no way I could keep the twins from them. So, I had to be the one to make the first move. It had been me, after all, that had walked out. I just wasn’t sure how they would react. I knew that it wouldn’t take long for my mum and Aliciana to forgive me. But my father? That was a different situation, but one I had to face.
“Come on. Let’s get ready, and I can get some food inside my beautiful mother-to-be.”
“You mean fat.”
I gently kissed her stomach, and then her lips. “You will always be gorgeous to me. And this gorgeous bump just means you are an amazing woman who is carrying two of the most precious lives in the world. Just don’t ask me to carry you around at eight months pregnant. I don’t think my back will take that.”
I didn’t manage to get out of the bed quick enough before the slap made contact with my chest. Laughing, I headed into the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day ahead of me. The day where I hoped I would finally have my own family back in my life.
I had pulled up outside my parents’ house a couple of minutes ago. I could see Mateus’s car sitting there, so I knew he was here, but I was too scared to move. What if they rejected me? Wouldn’t accept my apology for the things I had done? It would devastate both me and Abigail. I knew she had gotten close to my family these past couple of weeks, and I didn’t want to ruin their relationship. Perhaps she could continue her relationship and build one for the twins, while I just kept my distance? It would make the most sense. Then no one would get hurt.
I felt her hand take mine as I gazed towards the house.
“They will forgive you, Kye. All they want is to have their son back. They don’t care about the past, just the future.”
I could feel the tears start to form. How I had gone from an emotionless mercenary to this in such a small space of time, I had no idea. It was as though I couldn’t stop the tears from falling. I looked up to see the door opening and Mateus walking over towards the car. I expected him to walk over to Abigail’s door and help her out of the car, but was shocked when he came straight to mine and opened it.
“It’s not going to do you any good just sitting out here, now, is it? Come on. Everyone is looking forward to seeing you, including Dad, if that is what you are worrying about.”
I still wasn’t sure, but Mateus offered me his hand, which I took as he helped me out of the car. Instead of letting me go, he pulled me into a hug. I couldn’t hold back the tears any longer and let them flow down my face as he held onto me tightly.
