Too Late To Love Me I Already Left With His Twins (Lydia and Dave) novel Chapter 62

He didn’t try to use it.

Didn’t say anything about yes.

Didn’t push.

Which made it worse.

“Marcus,” I said.

He looked up.

“I’ll go out with you.”

He blinked once.

Then

“Okay.”

I tilted my head slightly.

“You’re not going to celebrate?”

“I will,” he said. “Later.”

“Why later?”

“Because right now you look like you might change your mind if I make this a big moment.”

I paused.

Then nodded.

“Accurate.”

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Silence again.

Sfter this time.

“Lydia,” he said.

“Yes?”

A slight pause.

“What’s their father like?”

There it was.

Placed carefully.

I looked at him.

Then away.

Then back.

And for the first time

I didn’t have a clean answer.

I inhaled.

Slow.

And opened my mouth.

“I’m not ready to talk about it,” I said.

Not because I wasn’t healed.

But because… just didn’t see him as that relevant anymore. 2

The first Sunday he spent at my place, he arrived ten minutes early.

Which is already suspicious behavior.

People are either late or exactly on time. Early people are… intentional.

Marcus was definitely intentional.

He knocked once. Soft.

I opened the door halfway.

Because I am still, fundamentally, a woman who has lived through things.

He stood there in a plain navy shirt, sleeves rolled just enough. No flowers. No big gestures.

Just a paper bag in his hand.

“You said Eli likes pancakes,” he said.

“I did.”

“I brought batter. I don’t trust myself with your kitchen yet.

I looked at him.

Then at the bag.