We Want Mommy Not You Daddy (Cedar) novel Chapter 231

Chapter 231

Cedar’s POV

I wiped angrily at my tears, but they kept coming. Do you have any idea how much it hurts when you push me away? You made my heart flip, and now you want to run? You think you’re protecting me, but all you’re doing is making choices that aren’t yours to make.”

Ridley stared at me, conflict evident in his features. Slowly, he reached out his hand toward me. I moved closer and took it in mine, pressing it against my

wet cheek.

“You don’t get to push me away anymore,” I said, my voice steadier now. “However much time we have–whether it’s years or months–I want to spend it

with you. The only thing I would ever regret is not being by your side when you needed me most.

The silence stretched between us, filled with the weight of everything unsaid. Finally, Ridley’s eyes reddened, and he gave a small, almost imperceptible nod. In that moment, I saw a vulnerability in him I’d never witnessed before–the armor he always wore cracking open just enough to let me see inside.

I leaned down and kissed him again, deeper this time, pouring every ounce of my love and determination into it. When we finally broke apart, Ridley

reached up to brush the tears from my face with a gentleness that made my heart swell.

“I’m sorry, Cedar,” he whispered. “I just couldn’t bear the thought of watching you suffer because of me.”

“Sharing your pain is part of loving you,” I replied, a small smile forming through my tears. “From now on, whatever comes our way–good or bad–we face it

together.”

His fingers entwined with mine, and in that simple gesture was a promise I’d been waiting for him to make: he would finally let me in.

Ridley’s POV

I drifted in darkness, tethered to consciousness by the thinnest of threads. Something pulled at me–not physically, but in that space between reality and nothingness. A voice called to me from somewhere beyond the void, soft yet insistent, like light penetrating the endless black.

“Ridley…”

The voice was familiar. Cedar? I struggled to respond, to push through the heaviness that pinned me down, but my body refused to cooperate.

Then came warmth–a gentle touch against my forehead that slowly traced down to my lips. That sensation was an anchor, pulling me back toward the

surface of awareness. I fought to open my eyes.

When I finally managed it, Cedar’s face was mere inches from mine, her lips just pulling away from my own. For a moment, I wanted nothing more than to

reach for her, to pull her close, but my body reminded me of its weakened state with a wave of exhaustion.

My instinct was to retreat behind the familiar walls of cold detachment. fiut just as I did, something broke in Cedar. Her cumpasure crumbled as tears spilled

down her cheeks

So she knew. As I watched her emotions pour out, something twisted painfully in my chest. She declared she wouldn’t leave use, regardless of what the future held The unconditional arreptance in her words wrapped armund me like a warmth I hadn’t tell in years.

If she could be this brave, what excuse did I have to keep running?

I reached up, cupping her tear stained cheek, my thumb gently brushing away the moisture there in that moment, I didn’t want to valenlate tisky or consider consequences. I just wanted to exist in this moment of happiness without regist

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