I understood what she was saying, but I couldn’t imagine how it would change anything.
“Then he needs to tell you what he’s feeling, and eventually, you will come to an understanding. Maybe that means you don’t stay a family, but once you have an understanding, hopefully you can move forward amicably, because your baby will need that.”
I
nodded. “I’ll try.” I had an appointment for my sonogram next week. Maybe I could talk to him then. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. Now, am I allowed to be excited about becoming a grandma?”
I smiled up at her. “Yes. You’ll be the best grandma ever.”
“I will. I could be one to Maisie, too. Perhaps you can tell Dylan that as well.”
26
Dylan
When court resumed, Tessa wasn’t there, and it worried me. Was she sick? Had she run off? “Do you know where she is?” I asked my lawyer.
“She wasn’t feeling well after I gave her the papers.” He cast a glance with the same judgmental expression as he’d given me when I asked him to make them up.
“I have to protect my rights,” I defended my actions.
“Yes, you do. But that baby isn’t born yet, and you’re in the middle of a custody case. The timing is bad.”
I turned my head away and rolled my shoulders. I wasn’t going to feel bad about this.
“She’s a young woman hopelessly in love with her husband. Enough so that she married him to save his other kid. She’s in the early stages of a pregnancy, which can be tough if she’s having morning sickness. Her husband is planning to divorce her and served her legal papers while she’s here helping him fight for his other kid.”
I swallowed down the guilt.
“Seriously, Dylan. Why she came to help you I have no idea. This probably won’t be over today. Will she be here for the next hearing?”
“She will.”
He gaped at me. He was probably wondering if I was delusional or narcissistic. “Why? Is she a sadist? A glutton for punishment?”
I shot him a scathing glare. “She sticks to her commitments.”
He nodded. “At least someone does.”
“What does that mean?”
“Have you stuck to your commitment to her? You treat her like shit, and yet she keeps her word.”
I hated feeling like an asshole. She was the one who didn’t tell me about the baby, but somehow I was the bad guy? Fuck, I was. Everything he was saying was right, which made me the world’s largest asshole.
“One more thing,” he said.
“You’ve said enough,” I ground out.
“That thing about Leo cheating on his wife and Veronica’s plan to take Maisie out of the country? Tessa discovered that. She called me and the PI.”
I turned to him in confusion. “What?”
He nodded. “Apparently she brought Maisie to her visit and that’s when she saw Leo with his hand up the nanny’s dress, and found the passport for Maisie.” He pulled out his phone and opened a picture. “She even had the common sense to snap a picture.”
I looked at the photo of a passport with Maisie’s picture. “Why didn’t she tell me this?”