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Two days after that my mom and Aunt Celeste decided that it would be best for me to leave Oak Island and spend the duration of my pregnancy living with my Aunt Celeste. I attended a community college near her house, lying to everyone that I was at UCLA.
The following day after the decisions and plans were made, Dylan found me in my room having what my therapist referred to as a nervous breakdown.
“School was great. So, when can I meet my dad?” She bounced in her seat with excitement.
Another one of Dylan’s qualities that I had been dealing with for the last six years, his daughter didn’t beat around the bush.
She said what she meant and meant what she said.
“Honey, I told you. I need to see him first.”
She rolled her eyes. “That’s so stupid. I’m his daughter and I’m super adorable and loveable.” She shrugged. “He’s going to love me instantly.”
I laughed. She was also cocky like him.
Giselle knew everything that happened to me. My Aunt Celeste never kept it a secret from her. I always knew what was going on in her life. I just wasn’t involved in it until I got her back when she was ten. The first time I met Giselle was only a few months before she came back to me. Our daughter loved hard, exactly like her father. She forgave me, saying she had been waiting for that moment all her life, and she knew in her heart that I would make my way back to her.
We belonged together.
“Why can’t I go to the party?” she asked. “Gammy and Papa invited me, too. They told me, Mom. Besides, my name is on the invitation, which in my book means I should be there.”
“Honey, I promise. Let me see him first and then you can meet him.”
She frowned, disappointment clear across her face.
“You’re right.”
She glanced over at me as I parked the car in our driveway.
“You are super adorable and loveable. Your daddy is going to fall in love with you instantly.”
She beamed. The same honey colored eyes tore into my heart, exactly how her dad’s used to.
“Fine, but take a picture of me, just in case. You know, just to seal the deal and stuff.”
I nodded, silently wishing I had her confidence.
DYLAN
“What the fuck are you doing here?” I roared, taking in the woman I never truly knew.
I didn’t want this party.
As far as I was concerned there wasn’t anything to celebrate, thanks to the bitch standing in front of me. I woke up in my teenage bedroom. I was thirty-seven years old and officially living back home with my parents. I couldn’t even rent my own goddamn apartment, seeing as I was a convicted felon fresh out of prison.
I was outside on the porch, needing to get some air before this godforsaken party, that I never asked for or wanted to begin with, started when I saw her.
“I won’t fucking ask you again, Bree, what the fuck are you doing here?”
She peered all around the open space and then back at me. “I… I was invited,” she stammered. “I came early to help set up and hopefully talk to you.”
“You gotta be shittin’ me? You have quite a set of brass balls on ya, don’t you? Who the—”
“I… no… I just—”
I loomed over her. “Do not interrupt me! Don’t you fucking dare interrupt me,” I seethed.
She shook her head. “I’m just trying to explain. If you could give me—”
