Too Late To Love Me I Already Left With His Twins (Lydia and Dave) novel Chapter 196

Involved

Dave POV

“I’m trying to be involved,” I said carefully, trying to keep my tone level. “You could have at least told me my children’s birthday was this week.”

The second I said my children, I saw her expression change.

Not loudly.

Not dramatically.

But enough.

“Your children?” she repeated softly.

I looked at her directly.

“Yes. My children.”

“Interesting,” she said. “Because for six years they were apparently only mine.”

That one landed straight in my

The twins had gone complexest.

I hated that immediately.

silent now.

I hated that they were watching adult tension instead of enjoying whatever puzzle chaos they had going on two minutes earlier.

“I know I failed,” I said quietly.

“Do you?”

“Yes.

“Because right now you sound more offended about missing information than missing six entire birthdays.”

That one hurt because it was true.

Painfully true.

Lydia folded her arms tighter.

“There’s no we,” she said coldly. “There’s just you.”

Her voice stayed calm which honestly made it worse.

“I’m doing you a favour by allowing you near my kids, gotcha?”

“We are not doing this.”

“Lydia-”

“No.”

Her tone sharpened instantly.

The twins looked frozen now.

Watching us carefully in that horrible way children do when they sense emotional instability but do not fully understand it yet.

And suddenly I felt exhausted.