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CHAPTER 41
Cheyenne
“What do you wanna watch?” I asked Fozzie who was currently keeping Marshmallow, who had developed quite a crush on him, company in the cat bed as I sat on my couch scrolling through Netflix.
He didn’t respond.
“You’re no help,” I sighed.
I was doing everything I could to stop thinking about the things that Billy had said earlier.
He said that Cash loved me.
I’d hoped and dreamed of hearing those words for so long. Sure, Billy had been the last person that I’d expected to hear them from, but still, they were nice to hear.
I’d thought that they would have made me happy, but instead, every time I thought about the possibility that Cash did, in fact, love me, the scene that I’d witnessed yesterday when I left the doctor’s office played in my head.
I’d been walking to my car and glanced at the park across the street. That’s when I’d seen it. Cash, Amelia, and Marissa. Amelia was on Marissa’s lap and Cash was pushing them on the swing. They were laughing and talking and honestly looked like they were shooting an ad for the City Parks and Rec department.
I’d never known that something could make me filled with so much joy and simultaneously break my heart. But seeing the three of them being such a happy family had done just that.
Cash and I had talked endlessly about how much we both wanted families of our own, and how much we didn’t want our kids to come from broken families. Even though his parents had technically been together, he hadn’t been raised in a happy household and he wanted something different for his own children.
I’d thought that maybe things could still work out for us. People’s lives didn’t always turn out exactly as they’d planned, and I’d been holding out hope that there was a chance that we could still be together. But seeing him with his daughter and the mother of his baby was the reality check that I’d needed. It was like a splash of cold water on my face.
He had everything he wanted. A baby. beautiful family. And I was happy for him. Truly, I was.
It was me who I felt sorry for. I’d wanted those things with him. But, I’d come to the conclusion that our timing just wasn’t right. Or maybe, we just weren’t meant to be.
Either way. I was sitting here, sulking with my dates Ben and Jerry and he was playing house with his new family.
There was a knock at the door, and I stayed on the couch. I’d been waiting for reinforcements to show up since Billy left. Isabella had texted and asked if she could bring over dinner, I told her I’d already ate dinner.
I lied. Unless you counted finishing off the rainbow sherbet and breaking open the Half Baked dinner.
Reagan had called to see if I needed her to pick up anything for me from the store while she was there. I told her I was fine.
Skylar and Luna had texted me a picture that Luna had drawn for me of a teddy bear that said Get Well Soon. It actually looked a lot like Fozzie.
I pushed off the couch, knowing that whoever it was wouldn’t be ignored. And hey, if it was Isabella maybe she knew I was lying and had come bearing sustenance. As I padded to the front door, I reminded myself that this is what I’d always wanted. People that cared about me.
I forced myself to smile as I opened the door. But within seconds the smile that had been forced spread wider. It wasn’t Isabella, or Reagan, or Skylar, or Luna standing on my doorstep. It was Cash.
It hadn’t been that long since I’d seen him last but somehow in that time he’d gotten even more good-looking.
His normally clean-shaven jawline was peppered with stubble that gave him a sexy, or should I say sexier edge. His hair was wild, just the way I liked it. His eyes were just as deep and soulful as always and my heart was doing flip-flops.
“Hi,” I breathed.
As excited as my body was to see him, I had to remind myself that this might not be a friendly social visit. I’d been preparing myself for ‘the talk’. The one where he told me that he was going to be with Amelia’s mother and they were going to be a family.
I’d known it was coming. I’d been dreading it. And it was here.
“Hey.” He grinned, the sexy half-grin that always did funny things to my lady parts.
Down girl.This isn’t a play date.
“How are you feeling?”
