The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 271

The First Meeting 

LUCAS’S POV: 

Saturday came. 

Martin drove. I sat in the passenger seat and watched the city give way to quieter roads and I thought about James. Osei who had died at a young age and had been worth knowing and had left behind a son who had his laugh and a best friend who had been keeping the promise for two years. 

I thought about walking into Dorothy’s house and meeting a five-year-old boy. 

Life was strange and full and I was very glad to be in it. 

“You are quiet,” Martin said. 

“Yes, that’s because I am thinking,” I said. 

“About?” 

“About how quickly things change,” I said. “And how I am glad they do.” 

He glanced at me. That glance that said everything. 

“Me too,” he said. 

We drove the rest of the way. I had been a person who moved fast and worked hard and kept my personal life clean and uncomplicated. I had been very proud of this. I had thought it was sophisticated. 

I understood now that it was lonely. 

What I was driving toward was the opposite of uncomplicated. A five-year-old boy who asked for Martin in the night. A grandmother who called people on their nonsense. A promise made at a hospital bedside that had been kept for two years without fanfare. An ex-fiance who had been a coward about the timing and honest about everything else. 

None of it was clean. 

All of it was real. 

I found that I did not mind at all. 

Dorothy’s house, when we pulled up, had a garden that was full of flowers and a small bicycle leaning against the fence that had clearly been ridden hard and put away muddy. 

I got out of the car. 

From inside the house came a sound that I had been told about but had not heard yet. A laugh, big and open and completely unguarded. 

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