Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 236

Chapter 236

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Damien’s POV

The minute my invitation for the Alpha Ball arrived, I threw it straight into the trash can. I had thought that was the end of it, until it magically appeared in Stacy’s hands later that day, as she held it up for me. With wide, hopeful eyes, she asked me, “Can we go please?”

Stacy had coerced her sister into this too, and both of them stood side by side like the cuteness brigade, staring up at me like I was about to make or break their entire world.

I really didn’t want to disappoint them, but in this, I felt I had no choice.

This wasn’t some regular party. This was the event where I had previously lost their mother. Where my entire world had fallen apart and came crashing down. If it hadn’t have been for my two daughters, Amy first and then Stacy following, I might have succumbed to my own madness.

The Alpha Ball wasn’t the catalyst for it all, but it had been where everything had happened. That made it bad enough. I’d successfully avoided it for five years, but now, six years later, it seemed my girls were putting me on the spot to make a choice.

As much as I loved them, this wasn’t the kind of choice that I wanted to make. It felt as if they were asking me to put them in danger, just as their mother had been, in allowing them to go.

I would protect them from everything, even this.

Maybe especially this.

“Absolutely not,” I said, harsher than I meant to. With children so young, less was more in terms of anger and volume. I didn’t mean to scare my girls, but I was scared.

They didn’t know that, and shrunk at my bellowing voice. They curled into each other, their eyes of hope turning to wells of sadness and fear as tears started to fall.

Immediately, I dropped to my knees in front of them. “I’m sorry,” I said. “I didn’t mean to say that so harshly.”

“Are you mad?” Stacy asked, sniffling.

“Not at you, honey,” I told her. “Not at either of you. You are my precious daughters and I love you.” To help prove this, I held open my arms for hugs. The girls hesitated for a minute, which broke my heart, but then they inched forward. When their arms went around my neck, I circled mine around their backs, holding them tightly.

They continued to cry as their fear worked its way through them. I clung onto them, wishing I could take the last few minutes back and had never scared them.

“I’m sorry,” I whispered. “I’m so sorry.

For a while, we just held each other. It took some time for all of us to calm down. But when we did, finally, we separated. Together we all sat down on the carpet, staying within reach of each other.

Stacy frowned down at the invitation she still held. Amy looked up at me.

“You were scary, Daddy,” Amy said.

“I’m sorry, Amy,” I said. “I didn’t mean to scare you. I just… I have a lot of reasons for not wanting to go to this event. But any other event this year that you want to go to, say the word and we will go.”

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