Fall For My Ex's Mafia Father novel Chapter 304

A long time later I hear footsteps behind me coming out of the bathroom.

“Fay?” Daniel asks. “Are you…all right?”

Silent, I shake my head no.

“What can we do?” Jerome asks.

“Nothing,” I murmur. And then I pause, considering it – considering if there’s anything I want. But I just come up blank. “Can you just leave me alone?”

The boys are silent for a moment and I sigh, wishing they’d just go.

“Are you sure?” Daniel asks, hesitant. I can hear in his words that he desperately doesn’t want to leave me along right now, that he wants to be here for me. But…I just can’t. Not right now.

“Please,” I say, hunching my shoulders and wrapping my blankets tighter around me.

“Okay,” Daniel whispers, and a moment later I feel his lips press against my hair as he gives me a gentle kiss. “We’ll be right next door, okay? You call us when you want us?”

“Okay,” I reply, nodding and squeezing my eyes shut.

And then I hear their footsteps as they leave the room, the slight creaking of the door as they pull it closed behind us, though they don’t close it all the way so that they can hear me if I call.

I lay very still for a very long time. I lose track of it, eventually, working hard on clearing my mind and pushing all my thoughts away. Instead, I listen to my breathing, feel my heart beating, and seek – deep within me – some kind of…difference. Can I feel the baby growing in there? Is it…is it even a baby?

Do I want it to be?

Some time later I sit up in bed, groaning a little as my muscles unlock and bend after far too long in one position. I raise my hands to my temples, rubbing them in an attempt to clear the headache that pounds there.