Loving a Man Who Forgot Me Novel Chapter 56
I hit pause on the game and set my controller down.
“Yes. I plan to leave Katya as soon as she has the baby, since the only reason I married her was to make sure she didn’t have an abortion.”
“Are you serious?” It was hard to meet my brother’s eyes as I admitted the extent of the mess I’d gotten myself into, maybe even harder than confessing to my mom. It was one thing to disappoint her.
Another entirely to let down the brother who looked up to me and wanted to be like me. “Yeah. It was either marry her or let her get rid of the baby, but please don’t—” “I knew it!” All four of our heads snapped around to the doorway. “Dammit,” I cursed to myself.
“What are you doing Addie?” I came to find you to apologize for going off on you, but now I’m just as pissed off again. Only not at you as much.” I jumped up and crossed the room to my sister. “You cannot say anything to her, Addie.”
“The hell I can’t! She forced you to marry her by threatening to kill the baby!” I placed my hands on her shoulders. “Remember this is just as much my fault. I got her pregnant. She wanted a commitment because she was afraid I would abandon her with a kid.
Yeah, it’s messed up, but try to put yourself in her shoes for a minute.” She shrugged my hands off. “I don’t want to. She trapped you, Abel. Probably on purpose. Because she’s a conniving bitch and you’ve never been able to see her for who she really is.
Somebody needs to put her in her gosh damn place.” “Addie, stop.” “No! She’s a horrible person, Abel. You can’t let her get away with doing this to you.”
“I’m not. I’m doing what I have to for now, but once the baby is born, it will be okay. I’ll fix it.” She continued to glare at me with a clenched jaw that I knew was holding back a torrent of curses and harsh words. My sister had never been very good at reigning her temper in.
Or any emotion really. “You can hate Katya if you need to, Addie, but remember, that baby will be your niece or nephew, and that’s what’s important right now.” Her expression remained fixed, but then softened after a minute and she blew out a harsh breath. “
Fine. You’re right. It’s just . . . it’s just that…” “What Addie?” Her chest heaved as she let out another heavy breath. “You were supposed to marry Abbi and have babies with her and live happily ever after. Not this.”
I darted my eyes to the side, unable to meet her gaze. “I know,” I said quietly. “I messed that all up.” “You know what Mom always says.” I forced my eyes to hers. “There are two kinds of mistakes.”
“The kind you have to learn to live with and the kind you can fix,” I finished. “Yeah, I know, but I don’t think I can fix this one.” “Don’t be so sure about that.”
“She’s in love with someone else, Addie.” Saying it out loud was like stabbing a knife into my own chest, even though it was obvious to anyone who watched the two of them. “She does love him,” Addie said gently. “But she’s never not going to love you.”
I looked away again. “You don’t know what you’re talking about. Please just stay out of it.” “No. You’re my brother and I want you to be happy. And Abbi is my best friend and I want the same for her. You belong together.”
“I agree man.” Jesse came up behind me and set his hand on my shoulder. “I like the coach just fine. Seems like an alright guy, but there isn’t a single person in this house that doesn’t believe you two belong together.
There are just some things that have always been certain in life. The Patriots are the greatest football team, N’SYNC is better than Backstreet Boys, robots are going to take over the world someday, your sister has shit taste in men—”
“Hey!” Addie growled.