Chapter 29 029
Chapter 29: Talia’s POV
I was already out the door and Varian was in hot pursuit, only stopping when he had gained hold of my arm.
"Talia, why don't we just sit down again and talk about this like adults? I don't like how you are making me look like the villain here."
I scoffed without looking back. "Do you think there is a more appropriate title for a man who cheats on his wife and abandons his own child?"
The pressure from his fingers increased. "I’m trying so hard here, but I won't take all these lies that you keep spewing at me!"
I yanked my arm free. "Thank you," I said bitterly. "Thank you for reassuring me that divorcing you is going to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my entire life."
He was about to say something else before Shelly burst out from the coffee shop. "Varian! Varian!"
She looked a little pale, but her reaction would have been more fitting for someone on the verge of death. Anyone with two functioning brain cells could see she was pretending, but Varian was a man who had given up both his conscience and his common sense. He went running to her. I gave them one last look of spite before leaving.
I drove to the hospital first. The doctor told me he had lost consciousness and the window to begin his treatment was becoming smaller. I found my way into the bathroom, tears pouring down my face. As a werewolf, being able to shift was our identity. How could I be responsible for stripping my son of that?
I couldn't even bring myself to see him because I was afraid I would break and tell them to begin the suppressants. He might not understand now, but in the future, he would hate me for not trying.
I told the doctor I would be leaving without seeing him and drove back home. I didn't care what we had to sell; I just needed money to save my baby's future.
I got home earlier than expected and waited for my mom to arrive. When she did, I spilled everything. She was quiet for the longest time and then asked that same aggravating question.
"Maybe he just said that to make you really change your mind? Are you sure you can't give him another chance?"
My bottom lip dipped down. I reminded myself before I let the words out that my mother was one of the only people I had in my corner, and if I spoke out too freely, it might mean losing that too.
“I'm not giving him another chance he didn't just betray me he betrayed our kids too, he's been doing that for their entire life for our entire marriage how am I supposed to look past it and pretend like nothing happened I just can't even if I wanted to I can't everything I look into his eyes all I see is the betrayal nothing else,”
My mom's head took a bow and a solemn expression overwhelmed her face, “I still think that you should open your mind to the possibility especially since he's the only one who can pay the hospital for his treatment.” It was almost as if I had been talking to a wall the all this time brushed my palm over my chest and explain to my mother that the reason I was back here was because he had refused to pay for Liam's treatments.
“Maybe that's because of the divorce…” she tries to argue shifting uncomfortably but I countered that by saying he himself had said that he wouldn't pay for Liam's treatment.
She was quiet at this then sighed deeply.
“How did things get like this?” The question came out rhetorically as she brushed her fingers over each other, I sat silently absorbing that question, if somebody had told me just a few weeks ago, no actually months that the perfect little family I had pictured in my head was just that my imagination conjured within my cranium I would have laughed in their face at how ridiculous it was.
But it didn't take long for what had been built for years in just months.
Sadly I didn't have the luxury to just sit around and sulk, I scheduled meetups with some of my closest friends following friends days of the week even if I was going to put myself in debt I wanted to get that money.
Evening came and I decided to visit my daughter, one of the worst part of all of this was knowing that I wouldn't get to see her as often as I would like and it's broke my heart but not anymore than staying on the same roof with her father and watching him play happy family with his mistress.
I wasn't really in a position of splendor to spend cash restlessly but I needed something to distract my girl so I got her a doll I knew she loved.
Arriving at the park house it was quick to conclude that the air had changed. Those who usually hid their hostility was beginning to pull it out like a weapon hiding under their sleeve. A maid tend to escort me at the door not like the Luna at least for the present but uninvited guest that could not be left to wander around thankfully I didn't run into varian and Shelly I can imagine that he took her to another one of they are regular date nights, back then his explanation was that she was lonely and needed to step out for some fresh breath.
I swallowed a lump of air to think I had actually believed all of that was mind boggling.
To give myself some mercy perhaps it was just easier to believe that he was being extra generous to a friend than treating our entire relationship like yesterday's trash.
Lily was so happy to see me, she ran over and hugged me crying, begging me not to leave without her again her cries cut at me like knives.
I crouched down to her level stroking her hair as I held together the shattered pieces of my heart.
“Mommy can't take you right now,” I said, “I'm just staying with Grandma for a while but I promise…” I held her little hands bringing them up to my face and pressing them so she'll feel the warmth and both I had for her, “i promise that mommy is coming back for you,”