CHAPTER 70: It is not a coincidence
Alaia
I observed the garden from the office window, hugging myself and pressing my arms with my
hands. I didn’t know what I was thinking about–there were too many things in my head. One of them was stronger than all the others, and it scared me. I couldn’t allow myself to feel this; I had to fight against it. I lived two years without him; I could do it for the rest of my life.
I sighed.
“Princess, the invitations have arrived,” Cedric’s voice brought me back to reality.
“What invitations?” I asked, not quite understanding what he asked. I turned halfway to see him holding a card in his hands.
“It will be exactly in a month,” he said, and my eyebrows knitted together. So soon? It seemed like there were several months left. He walked towards me and handed me our wedding
invitations. The fine paper brushed against my fingers; it was exactly the design we ordered.
“My lawyer told me the divorce papers should have arrived by now,” said my best friend and fiancé, and I glanced at a stack of papers on the desk.
“That’s right,” I replied as Cedric looked in that direction.
I opened the invitation to read our names on it, along with the date and place, and I felt
confused. This wasn’t the place we had seen.
“A castle?” I asked, pronouncing each letter. “It’s too much.”
“I know, sweetheart, but it couldn’t be any other way. You know my mother, my family.” He
looked at me with a complicated smile on his lips.
“I still think it’s over the top.” I shook my head from side to side. “Your family is investing a lot
of money in this,” I moved the card.
“Let them; it’s nothing for my family.” He shrugged, looking at me for several seconds and placing his hands on his hips. “Aly, you seem strange,” I turned to look at him, and his blue eyes observed me intently.
I lower my gaze. “It’s nothing,” only that it seemed my mind and heart were at war.
“Are you sure about this?” he asked, taking the card from my hands.
I looked at him and then at the card. “I am,” I confirmed, nodding more times than I should.
Cedric exhaled and nodded thoughtfully. We talked a bit more about sending the invitations
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and the wedding until it was time for him to leave; his flight to Amsterdam departed in a
couple of hours.
Once he left, I stepped out of the office and went for a glass of water.
I heard my daughter’s high–pitched scream and knew something must be happening.
I went out to see Nick entering the house. He was wearing sunglasses, which he removed upon reaching the children.
“My Angel.” He hugged Alana, and she wrapped her little arms around his neck.
“Buddy,” he fist–bumped Noah, and Noah hugged him.
Today, he was leaving for a trip to Europe; I knew it would be three countries and would take a
week, so he decided to come to say goodbye before taking the flight. He spent all afternoon
with them yesterday, but apparently, it wasn’t enough. Nick knelt before them.
“Dad will be back soon. I’ll call you often.” He held their little hands. “I could buy you a couple
of phones, but I know your mother wouldn’t agree,” he said. Nick looked at me, and I bit my lip
to keep from laughing. “So, I’ll call you on her phone.” He pointed to me, and I rolled my eyes.
“I’m going to miss you,” he caressed each of their cheeks and hugged them again.
The hug lasted several seconds, and I pursed my lips, not understanding what was happening.
Nick tried to pull away, but my children clung to him and refused to let go, just as they have done with me so many times. Moved, he pressed their small bodies against him.
“What a tender image,” Tino arrived behind me, and my body jolted
“Dear God, do you want to give me a heart attack?” I said, and Ash laughed from the other side
of my back.
“Daughter, just look at them,” he pointed out.
I couldn’t deny it; Nick managed to steal his children’s precious little hearts.
After a few minutes, Nick carried both of them to the car. I decided to follow, understanding
what he would do.
“I love you,” he said to Noah and handed him to me, doing the same as Alana, who was
received by Ash.
“Have a good trip,” I said, and Nick looked at me in a way that made my body react on its own,
and he smiled.
This jerk.
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My children waved goodbye to their father, and he waved back in the same way.
“What happened to his lip?” Tino asked. Nick had a mark on his lower lip, a sign of what I did to him a few days ago in his office. The scar was only noticeable if you looked closely, as his
beard covered most of it.
“Where are your panties?” Tino checked my jeans, and I wrinkled my nose.
“What’s wrong with you, boy?” I said.
“Haven’t you seen that they flew off as soon as the hunk made eyes at you?” I looked at the sky, frustrated.
“What are you talking about? You’re crazy,” I grumbled.
“I’m just saying what I see. About the lips. Did you see it? Someone bit him, and it wasn’t me. I’m jealous,” he said, annoyed.
“I can’t be jealous because it was me,” I said, heading back to the house.
“Interesting play on words,” said Ash, and I gave him a dirty look.
“But, but, what did you say?! I’m going to lose it. She just got the wedding invitations, and
she’s biting the ex–not–ex,” he breathes dramatically. “It smells like trouble. My God, the final judgment is coming,” he puts a hand on his forehead.
“Dear, I’m not judging you, okay?” Ash said seriously, raising his palms after handing Alana to Loli, who took both children with her. “But how did that happen?” Ash looks at me with
curiosity, and Tino tilts his head, narrowing his eyes, ready to listen.
These two were going to drive me crazy.
“It was nothing.”
“Say it until you believe it.”
“You have no forgiveness from God,” Tino yelled when he saw me climbing the stairs to get my .purse. If I admit it, it was wrong. “You can’t leave us hanging with the gossip,” he pointed at
me, and I stopped in my tracks, my head tilting back as a big laugh escaped my lips.
A moment passed, and I told them in detail what happened to Nick. They looked at each other,
terrified, and closed their lips as I had asked them to.
We went to the mall with my mother, Elise, my cousin, Loli, and Tino. We decided to go
shopping and also want to eat out.
We browsed the stores, and my children entered a toy store, making me buy a few things for
them, including a blue glittery ball that Alana loves.
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We ate at one of the mall’s restaurants and continued enjoying our girls‘ day out. When it was time to go home, we walked to the parking lot, all laughing and feeling cheerful. My children. played with the ball in front of us, while Gavin and another bodyguard walked behind us.
Alana and Noah stopped abruptly and looked up. I frowned, and my breathing started to quicken, as did my heartbeats when I saw who was in front of them. I walked the remaining steps to get closer to the children. Killian stopped the ball with his shoe.
Gavin and the other guy moved closer to stand on either side of me, behind my children. I noticed Lillian bending down towards the kids and picking up the ball in his hands. There were
two men behind him.
“So, here they are,” Killian commented, looking at each of the children. My kids just observe him in silence. “True Garnetts.” He smiled, but I didn’t like his smile.
“Noah, Alana,” I said, extending my hands toward them.
“I come in peace and am unarmed, Alaia,” the man said, raising his hands. “What could I do in front of all these people?” he questioned, raising his arms.
“I imagine this isn’t a coincidence,” I said, taking my children’s hands, who hadn’t stopped looking at Killian.
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“You’re correct,” he looked at me from his position and then at the kids, not standing up. want to meet the children; they are Garnetts after all,” he tried to touch a lock of Alana’s hair, but I moved her, so his hand remained in the air.
“I think you are the least suitable person to meet them. Do you forget you were the one who wanted to get rid of them?” I said, controlling my fury and indignation.
“Of course, I remember. It was my grandson and me,” he insists. “But things have changed. The children now exist, thanks to you being smarter than me and these fools at that moment.” He looked at the men behind him and shook his head. “Your children will inherit great fortunes and must learn what comes with them,” he commented, looking at them, and I can’t help but
snort.
“You can save your fortune, Garnett. As you already know, my children need nothing that comes from you. They will learn to be whoever they want from the right people. In life, there are things worth much more than several million in a bank account,” my blood boiled, remembering that all this started because of the money and power of that family.
“I don’t want a negative figure like you around my children, so I won’t allow you to get close to them, let alone meet them.”
“Fine, maybe I should use legal resources then.”
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Son of a b***h!
“Go ahead, use them, but remember who I am and what you’re up against,” I stood firmly, sure
he couldn’t beat us. Not wanting to continue, seeing this man’s face, I took two steps back,
taking my children with me.
“Mommy, the ball,” Alana looked at me and pointed to the object in Killian’s hands.
I looked at Killian, and before I could tell my daughter that we’d get another, he extended it to
her. Alana let go of my hand and went for it.
“No, no, no, no,” she wagged her little finger in Killian’s direction as soon as she was close to
him. She took the ball and returned it to me. I was perplexed by the child’s reaction when Noah.
let go of my hand and approached the man.
“No!” he said, facing him, and returned to me.
“They have characters, like their mother,” Killian found the children amusing. He stood up. Gavin and the other guy stepped a bit closer to Nick’s grandfather, and he raised his hands.
“You’ll hear from me. If I were you, I wouldn’t trust my grandson. He’s still the same heartless bastard who abandoned you,” he looked at my mother up and down and turned away.
