Chapter 42: Hot Chocolate

Chapter 42: Hot Chocolate
Giselle’s PoV
‘It is just a meal… I don’t have to be afraid of him nor do I need to take his words to my heart! We are no longer together, so his words should not matter to me!’ I repeated this in my mind over and over again hoping that it will etch in my head.
He was right, that our divorce was a peaceful one, so there is no reason for me to feel guilty about anything or avoid him like the plague even though he hurts 99% of the time that we are together.
‘How could he make it look so simple to manage such a large company at such a young age?’ What is ironic though is being his wife for almost three years, I knew nothing about the man!
It seems that we were never destined to be together in the first place!
“I said I am not hungry, what are you doing?” Giselle pushed away the hot chocolate that Colton had placed in front of her.
Colton picked up the tableware without lifting his head and said, “Drink your hot chocolate, Giselle. You don’t have to torture yourself by drooling over it. If you think it tastes bad, you can skip it.”
The two of us drank and ate our order quietly, but only halfway through the meal, I suddenly felt the urge to vomit, I stood and hurried to the washroom, covering my mouth.
“Giselle!” Colton’s voice was filled with worry, I saw him throwing down his knife and fork before he chased after me quickly. I pushed open the ladies’ washroom door and rushed to the trash can as I could not even make it to one of the stalls before I vomited.
I felt Colton’s hands pulling my hair away from my face ‘I must be smelling so horrible, why is he holding my hair?’ “Go away” I tried to shoo him away “Colton, go away!”
“No! If I don’t hold your hair back, you will get it dirty.” Colton was being very patient, and I could do nothing but die a thousand times of embarrassment. He was rubbing my back “It’s ok, just get it out.”
‘Why is he being so nice to me all of a sudden?’ Once I started dry heaving, I felt Colton walk away from me and I thought he was going to leave but he came back with a bottle of water and tissues “Here, just rinse your mouth you are in condition to walk to the washbasins.”
I rinsed my mouth and spit out the water into the trash can. Colton stood behind me throughout the whole thing with just a frown on his forehead “Is it always this bad?”

Colton’s PoV
She looked so pitiful puking her guts out, I felt bad that she was not able to even enjoy her favorite drink. The girl used to moon over thar drink like it was the one that gave her orgasms!
“It is not that bad” she shrugged her shoulders rinsing her mouth near the washbasin. “But this” she ran her hand over her stomach that had a slight bulge to it “It is all worth it for this little life growing in me.”
The dreamy look in her eyes as she referred to her unborn child, it kind of baffled me yet I felt a sense of affection toward the baby growing in her womb. The kind of smile that came to her naturally, she never smiled at me like that “Well…” I wanted to say something, but the words got stuck in my throat “Pregnancy suits you.”
“Thank you” she tucked her hair behind her ear, and I could not take my eyes off her. “We should get going. Tanner has to take care of Zana alone.”
‘How can she think of another man when I am standing next to her?’ I watched her walk past me and held out the washroom door for me “Are you going to come out?”
I tucked my hands in my pockets as I walked out after her. The rest of the drive to the hotel was quiet with neither of us speaking a word, for a change it wasn’t an uncomfortable one this time.
We got out of my car and were walking toward the hotel lobby when we bumped into an elderly couple “Oh lord, you need to be careful dearie. You can’t be walking around so carelessly in your condition.”
The elderly woman held Giselle and made sure that she did not trip and fall “You, young man, you need to be more watchful about your pregnant wife, especially during her first trimester.” She then turned to her husband “Youngsters these days think that they are invincible!”
Giselle went to correct her, but I beat her to it “I am sorry, ma’am, I will make sure I will be more vigilant.” I wrapped my arm around Giselle and held her while the elderly couple walked away from us.
“Why did you lie to them?” Giselle hissed untangling herself from my hold “We are divorced and that’s the truth!”
“Hey, hey, hey! I am sorry, but you need to be more mindful!” I gripped her forearm and stopped her from stomping away like a madwoman, especially considering her pregnancy.
‘First trimester?’ this information got Colton thinking of the possibility of this child being his “Giselle, is there anything you want to tell me?” he asked her as he turned her to face him completely before she could wiggle out of his hold.
Giselle looked up at Colton with her eyes as wide as saucers. She realized that the old lady just put her in a mess that she couldn’t possibly come out of unscathed! “Da… Mr. Black, that old lady is… is… is…” she realized that she was just about to give herself away when she stopped talking.
She took a deep breath and schooled her features very efficiently “What, Giselle? What about the old lady, hmmm?”
Colton narrowed his eyes, stepped closer to her, and said in a deep voice, “Are you absolutely sure that there is nothing that you need to tell me?”
Giselle did not understand what he was talking about, she was scared by the cryptic way he was talking, her face became paler, and she stuttered “Da… Colton… I don’t have anything to hide! Why are you asking me suddenly?”
Colton raked his hand roughly through his hair “It’s just… you look a little too thin for someone who is supposed to be pregnant and the way you kept throwing up your food? I am worried about you. Have you been to a gynec?”
Giselle wiggled out of Colton’s hold and put some much – needed distance between them “Yea… yeah… do you think I am stupid to not visit the doc as soon as I found out I am pregnant? And it was the doctor who told me that it is normal to feel nauseous during pregnancy.”
Giselle kept pushing him away in panic, stammering anxiously “You are a man what do you know about pregnancy and nausea? You made sure that I never got pregnant, so how would you know, Mr. Black?”
She was hitting on his weak point coz Colton was VERY meticulous every time he had sex with Giselle, he even sent his personal assistant to buy the morning – after pills for her when he was in doubt.
Giselle realized that she had never found Colton to be so domineering before. She took a deep breath and calmed herself down. At the end, she added, “Also, even if I have to go to the hospital for an examination, I should not be going with you. It should be my boyfriend Tanner, who should be accompanying me and not my ex – husband!”
Those words hurt Colton like a bitch he realized that she was deliberately hurting him with her words “You need to pay more attention to your girlfriend, Mr. Black. I heard that you are going to get engaged to her in three weeks’ time. Why are you running after me when you should be worrying about her, huh?”
Giselle’s words were undoubtedly heart-wrenching. She trembled subtly and tried her best to keep the fear out of her, but no matter how much she tried to, she could not stop thinking about what would happen when Colton will find out the truth. He is surely going to show her hell for keeping such a big thing from him!
Colton could never hurt her, he knew that in his heart and he thought she knew what kind of a man he is. She should know by now that he would never do something like that to her. He was also trying his best to restrain the emotions surging through him.
After their divorce, there was not a single day when he had not thought about her, about the time they spent together in the span of around three years. Though it was just one night of the week that he spent with her, she had made a place for herself in his life.
She was a habit that he could not let go of even if she had. Closing his eyes, he opened them again, and his tone of voice had calmed down, “All right, let us just go back inside. You don’t need to get so worked up about it!”
Giselle was not at peace though, she realized that the seeds of doubt had now been sown in Colton’s head, and knowing him, he was going to be a dog with a bone! She had to be ten thousand times more careful than she was before.