Chapter 30 His haunted eyes hold mine , and he sits back in his chair . Silence … . I wait for him to say something , he doesnt . He just sits there , shocked … or perhaps hes just counting the ways to hurt me . He doesnt need to count them , I already know its an infinite number . You … we … My voice trails off . He drops his eyes to a spot on the carpet , he cant even look me in the eye . You didnt wear protection , Gabriel . His eyes rise to meet mine , his hatred for me dripping from his every cell . Id been on antibiotics that month , and … I roll my lips as I try to compose myself , I can hardly see him through the tears . You told me … His eyes drop back to the carpet , his silence is beginning to scare the hell out of me . What was I supposed to do? I stammer . You told me you didnt want to see me ever again . Silence … I watch him , waiting for the explosion , waiting for some type of reaction , even an overreaction is better than this . Do they know ? he eventually asks . Who knows ? Nobody , I told everyone that they were conceived through IVF using donor sperm . The Perfect Husbands Secret 32.2 % apter 3d His eyes drop back to the carpet . Say something . Gabriel Ferrara doesnt do silence . I dont want anything from you , you dont have to worry , I stammer . You can live your life as normal ; we will never bother you . His dark eyes rise to meet mine , and this time they flicker with fury . He sits forward in his chair . Do you honestly think that you can keep my children from me ? He sneers . Fear runs through my system . I cannot believe … His voice trails off as if stopping himself from elaborating . Why is he not exploding ? Hes acting weird and out of character , its very unsettling . What were you going to say ? His eyes hold mine . You are the most selfish person I have ever met . What ? You let your feelings for me betray your own children , preventing them from having access to their father . He swallows the lump in his throat as if overcome with emotion . You have a fiancée . You will have more children , Gabriel , I whisper . He tilts his chin to the sky in defiance as he sits forward , his anger returning loud and clear . Did you really think I would never find out ? The hairs on the back of my neck stand up . I thought the day you left me was your biggest betrayal , he whispers . You forced me away . را Just because I didnt want you never meant I didnt want them . He sneers . The Perfect Husbands Secret 32.3 % apter 30 knife straight through my heart . I stare at him through tears . Theres the Gabriel I know . Cold and heartless . Here is what is going to happen , he says in a cold and calculating voice . Today I am sending a medic around to your house , and they are having a paternity test and you- he glares at me , -are finally going to do the right thing by your children . I open my mouth to say something . If you try to stop me from seeing them … even once . Prepare yourself for the consequences . Do you understand me ? he growls . B Is that a threat ? Push me and find out . My stupid eyes fill with tears of fear . You havent changed , still the selfcentered bastard who only thinks of himself . A trace of a smirk crosses his cold , hard gaze . I think you know me well enough , Violet , to know why Im angry . You didnt want anything to do with me . This has nothing to do with you , he spits . I have missed six years of my childrens life . Six birthdays . Six Christmases , six fucking years , Violet . My stomach twists , Im on the edge of a full emotional meltdown . Do the paternity test , he warns . And if I dont ? Prepare yourself . My eyes hold his . For what ? Armafuckinggeddon . He stands , and without another word , walks out of my office . I stare The Perfect Husbands Secret 32.5 % Bagost 20 the back of the door he just left through . no … Emotion takes over , and I put my head into my hands and cry . I sit in my car around the corner from my house as I try to pull myself together . I was so rattled that I had to leave work , I told them that I had just been told an old friend had died . Im just a dirty liar now . My eyes are red and swollen , and damn it , I feel so unstable . Terrified . His words come back to me : If you try to stop me from seeing them … prepare yourself for the consequences . My god , how has it come to this ? Last week , my life was normal , my biggest drama was finding ballet slippers , this week its like a bad dream . A living nightmare . The worst part is , I already know their paternity , there isnt even a need to do the test . Theres not one seed of doubt in my mind . Gabriel Ferrara is their biological father and there is nothing I can do about it . Just because I didnt want you never meant that I didnt want them . I screw up my face in tears . His words still hurt . I went straight back to being that woman who was madly in love with him , the pitiful woman with my heart on the bottom of his shoe , taking his hits blow by blow . Stop it , pull yourself together . You have to go home . Hull down the sunshield to fix my face in the mirror and I catch sight of a black car pulled The Perfect Husbands Secret 32.6 % apter 3 over to the side of the road and parked about two hundred meters behind me . What ? I turn around and my heart sinks for the thousandth time today , hes having me followed so that I cant disappear . And if I were a better person , I would tell you that going on the run with his children has never occurred to me . But it has … especially today . You are the most selfish person I have ever met . Hes right , I am … but it takes one to know one . And hes the fucking king . I pick myself up and dust myself off . I wipe my eyes and put my sunglasses on . I know I have to play by the rules , but fuck him . Were doing this on my terms . 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