Page 62 of Ma Belle Marguerite
“What the fuck. How did you get in here? I locked all the doors!” This man will be the death of me, I swear.
“Ma Belle,I have the keys to every door in this place. You can’t keep me out.” He stalks over to me, and I can see he looks angry. His blue eyes look like a strom is raging in them.
I didn’t think locking the doors would make him this mad. I mean, I can see being frustrated as it is his house. Still, why is he so worked up over it?
“What do you want, Rex? You sent me to my room, and here I am, being a good girl, doing as you asked.” I can’t help but poke the bear. He’s going to learn I won’t be pushed around.
Growling, Rex grabs my throat and forces me to look him in the eyes. “I wouldn’t call you a good girl. Good girls don’t keep secrets like you have been.”
He lets me go and turns away, but not before I see a look of hurt temporarily replace his anger. He won’t make eye contact with me.
“What are you talking about? What secrets?” He will need to elaborate. I don’t know what he could be talking about. He shouldn’t have any idea about the twins. I mean, I just figured it out minutes ago.
“Don’t play stupid with me, Isabella. You’ve had thirteen years to tell me. This is your last chance.” He still doesn’t look at me while he talks. “I already know, so just tell me, and I won’t be as hard on you.”
Chapter 28
Alexander
“Isabella, please. I don’t have much patience left.” Does she think I’m an idiot? That I wouldn’t figure it out? Has she been playing me this whole fucking time?
How can she keep such a huge secret? Remi and Brielle are my children; they’re my flesh and blood. Thanks to her hiding them from me, I lost out on their whole fucking childhood.
I get that things were complicated, but she should have known that I would have dropped anything and everything for my children. I would do anything for her.
Josh tried to get me to take a moment to breathe and relax before coming up here, but I need to confront her while I’m upset. I can’t have her distracting me and changing the subject.
She needs to feel my anger and know that even though she is the love of my life, I will not stand for lies. I would have told my father to fuck off and ran the second she told me she was pregnant. How did she not know this?
“What are you talking about? I haven’t kept anything from you. Well, maybe I hid a few of my toys from you, but that’s it.” She sounds so convincing!
“Don’t try to play games. I’ll bring you to the basement if needed. This is a lie that there is no coming back from.” I don’t want to, but I can’t trust her if she doesn’t admit that the twins are mine to my face—well, I guess to the back of my head, as I can’t look at her right now. Now is not the time to be weak. I could never actually hurt her but since she doesn’t seem to think I care I can use that to my advantage.
“Can you at least give me a hint of what you think I’m hiding from you?” I hear her splashing behind me as she gets out of the tub.
I must stay strong and not look at her. Those eyes of hers will draw me in and I’ll be done. She is like a siren to me.
“There is only one thing you could ever lie to me about or hide from me that I wouldn’t forgive you for.” Taking a deep breath, I decide to look her in the face. I have always been able to read her like a book, or so I thought. This will be the ultimate test.
“Rex, you’re scaring me. I haven’t kept anything from you on purpose.” Her face is pleading with me to believe her. Her eyes are wide and her head slightly tilted.
“Why wouldn’t you tell me the twins are mine? In all the letters you sent, you always referred to them as your husband’s.” My heart is breaking as I speak these words out loud. “Why would you lie about that? Do you not love me at all?”
Her brows furrow as I speak: “Rex, I didn’t know, I swear. I only realized right before you sent me to your room, and even then, I wasn’t sure.”
“Explain.” She wasn’t sure? I can’t believe she’s still lying to me after all I have done for her the past few days.
“When I was looking at Josh’s computers after you left, I saw on one screen that you have the same blood disorder that Remi has.” She attempts to move closer to me, but I back away. “I thought Josh didn’t see me looking at it, so I left and came up here to think.”
“You expect me to believe you?” I don’t know if I should trust her. She could just be saying what she thinks I want to hear. I can’t handle much more shit right now.
“I know it doesn’t look good, but I swear that I didn’t know.” She leans against the counter and takes a deep breath. “We had lots of testing done on Remi. You can look it up. We didn’t understand where he got VWD from. Nobody in either of our families had it. I didn’t even know that you had it until today.”
“I only found out after you left and I went into the hospital with an injury. Not like I could have contacted you to let you know.” I guess she really wouldn’t have known that I had VWD too.
She looks away and walks towards the bedroom like I didn’t just threaten to torture her a minute ago.
“Where the fuck are you going? We aren’t done here.” I cannot believe the audacity of her right now. We aren’t discussing the weather right now.
