Reject My Alpha President (Iris and Arthur) novel Chapter 54

Chapter 54

Íris

The following day, I wake to the sensation of warm sunlight splashing across my skin. A familiar scent, one that I’ve long forgotten and can’t quite put a name to, wafts through the cozy room, causing a small smile to spread across my face as I stir.

Home. I’m home.

For a moment, I forget that I left this place for five years. For a moment, I think that no time has passed at all, that it’s the morning all those years ago when I found out I was pregnant. Before everything happened.

It was all just a bad dream.

But then reality returns, as it always does, and my smile fades. I’m home, but not really. It’s not my home anymore. And if I don’t find a lawyer soon, I might be forced to stay here or else wind up in prison.

Arthur is apparently already at work for the day, which is a relief. I make a quick breakfast for myself and Miles in the kitchen, trying not to focus on how familiar everything is and how I know exactly where the bowls, silverware, milk, and cereal are without even having to think twice.

After eating quickly, we head out for the day. I bribe Miles with the promise of ice cream later if he comes with me, and then I take him to a lawyer’s office nearby.

The lawyer, an ancient old man with a birdlike nose and a tired look in his eyes, calls me into his office. “Sit,” he says, gesturing to the seat on the other side of his desk. He glances at Miles, looking almost disgusted for a moment at the very presence of a child, before he turns to me. “How can I help you?”

Taking a deep breath, I explain my situation to the lawyer. But I’m hardly halfway through before he stops me, raising a weathered old hand.

“I’m sorry, Miss, but I won’t help you,” he says.

I blink, taken aback. “Why not?”

“You’re claiming that you intend to fight a legal battle with the President of Ordan himself,” he chortles, as if he doesn’t even fully believe me. “His legal team is far bigger and more equipped than my small team can handle. It will be a certain defeat.”