Breegan didn’t even know where to start. He couldn’t figure out which one of these broads betrayed him most. The engagement wasn’t bad enough, but to befoul his home with this sick display of materialism.
And even worse is to raise three innocent children in such a place. One of those children he had yet to meet.
Jamie hadn’t bothered to tell him she had the baby or that he had become a toddler. Oh the selfishness of it all.
But Jamie’s behavior was to be expected. Breegan decided it was Holly who betrayed him most. He told her she was supposed to be the good one, the sweet one, the most devoted to him. What happened to that?
She told him to calm down which only angered Breegan further. After he rescued her from that miserable home she was living in!
Then she told him to settle down which didn’t help matters. She was avoiding the subject, refusing to hear the truth about herself.
He asked her why. Why Jamie? Holly said it just…happened.
Yeah, Breegan heard that line before. Especially since he has used it. Holly went on to talk about how angry she was at first and that she and Jamie wouldn’t talk to one another. Then Jamie had the baby in the bathtub and it was such a beautiful thing to witness and her feelings for Jamie deepened.
Breegan thought that was a load of tosh. He had seen Jamie give birth before and it wasn’t pretty.
She made awful faces and made horrible sounds. But Holly wasn’t listening.
According to her, Jamie had never been more beautiful to her.
There was no getting through to her.
Holly told Breegan he was the one that was horrible. He was a jerk and selfish.
He told her she was a llama.
She screamed at him. She was not a llama. He told her again that only a llama would say she wasn’t a llama.
They fumed.
Holly told Breegan that she was going to be an artist and take care of Jamie and their children.
Breegan reminded her that she couldn’t draw a straight line with a ruler. Besides, an artist needed to be compassionate and honest and she was not.
Plus a real artist would not be this materialistic. He stared at all the furniture and fixings—clutter as he saw it—in renewed disgust.
Holly went to see about one of the babies who was crying in his crib. It was the new one. Breegan’s heart melted at the sight of his son. Breegan asked Holly what his name was.
Not that it was his business, she said, but his name was Drake. She also told Breegan to leave and don’t bother coming back. Breegan told her not to talk to him like he was a piece of Broccoli. First off, this was his house. And second, he had the right to know his son’s name. Holly screamed with derisive mirth. He was not the father of Drake.
Just as a stunned Breegan was about to ask who Drake’s father was, the door opened.
And Leighton--Drake’s father--walked in.
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