Lilian POVI was surprised by how excited the kids were about it. With the help of the nanny, they got ready while I prepared the picnic basket. I decided to take sandwiches, fruits, sweets, cakes, juices and soft drinks. I brought enough food because I knew the children loved to bite into something all the time.At that moment, when I was preparing the food basket and the children were in the room with the nanny, Jensen was sitting on my sofa, throwing some indiscreet glances in my direction.“Umm, I'll warn you, Mr. Billionaire. If you think this won't take long, I'm sorry to tell you that you are very mistaken,” I told him as I made the sandwiches. “There are three children with a lot of energy, so it takes a whole preparation process just to do something as simple as going to the park with him.” My lines were ironic. Taking care of three kids was not easy at all, it was far from it, in fact. I really had no time for almost anything.He was just chuckling and shaking his head, as i
Lilian POV“Jensen, I present to you April Monroe, my best friend. April, this is Jensen Grimes, my ex-husband,” I said, formally introducing them to each other.“Wow! That was totally unexpected... Like, what the heck?” she stammered, taking a few steps back in shock, and then grabbed my elbow and pulled me into the kitchen. “Girl, was that the man you married?” She sighed, completely frantic.“Yes, it was him,” I shrugged. “And why the hell did you divorce him?” She was freaking out.“He’s just a pretty face, okay? He's nothing but an asshole,” I said, playing with a strand of my hair."Okay. But, I mean... Girl, for a guy like that, I would be tempted to let it go, you know?” She giggled. “Pretend I don’t see anything and stuff.” She elbowed me lightly in the arm. “What a hottie guy, honestly…” she melted as she looked at Jensen with a face of anguish.“Besides, he’s filthy rich,” I told her with a laugh.My friend almost passed out at the revelation. “Good heavens! You're so luck
Jensen POVI was still entranced as I looked at the triplets and interacted with them. God in heaven, those children were so incredible that they made me have such an indescribable feeling. What I was currently experiencing was the same as a dream. I mean, two days ago I was all unhappy with no good prospects in life, trapped in the bad decisions I made in the past, totally regretful and ashamed of myself, but then I was lucky enough to meet Lilian again and with her these three wonderful children.It really felt like a dream, or one of those alternative realities I kept imagining, where I would have found Lilian and she would have forgiven me. In these imaginations of mine, I always remembered her with a child because I never forgot that she was pregnant when we separated, but I would never imagine that the truth was that she had given birth to not just one, but three babies, which tripled my happiness.Phillip, my friend, didn't believe me. He thought I was sinking into a moment of
Jensen POV“So, Mr. Grimes,” the girl who was my ex-wife's friend began to say. “Does that mean you decided to spend a few days’ break in Rustburg?” She asked while looking at me with a completely suspicious look. She was sitting in the armchair a few meters away from me in the humble living room of Lilian's house, while we were all waiting for my ex-wife to get ready so we could go to the park outside and spend the day.April had that look of suspicion as she looked at me, as if she were treating me with caution, suspecting that at any moment I would do some harm to her friend and the triplets.I nodded to her question. “This place is quite nice to take a few days off, away from all the noise of Richmond,” I replied, and she nodded, still cautious.“From what I know, billionaires prefer to spend their holidays in more luxurious and busy places than a simple small town in the countryside where even their black card won't work,” she commented, hinting that she hadn't believed I was the
Lilian POVI couldn't deny that I had felt a little uncomfortable because of Philip's words, he had already started lecturing Jensen and saying that he was doing something stupid for being here spending an afternoon with me and the children as if he was doing something wrong. I was uncomfortable, yes. I couldn't just deny it and say no, but I still greeted him. “Hi, Philip.” I hadn't seen him in a while. He had been friends with Jensen for a long time, and of course we knew each other from Richmond.He looked at me, a little disconcerted. “Hi, Lilian…” he stammered, and then looked at Jansen. “Can we talk alone, please?” He asked.Jensen sighed and then looked at me as if he was annoyed by Philip's presence there. “Can't you see I'm at leisure, Philip? If you are so important to me to say that you even had to come here to upset me?” he asked in a harsh voice. “Precisely for that reason. Have you forgotten that we came here for work?” Philip asked Jensen.For work? So Jensen had come
Lilian POV That afternoon, time passed, but Jensen never came back. Every five minutes, I would glance at the park entrance to see if he was coming back, but that wasn't happening. He had said he wouldn't take much time talking to Philip, but apparently he had lied about that. “When is Mr. Grimes coming back, Mommy?” Ryan asked me when the boys finished throwing the ball and came over to the picnic blanket for some fresh air and fresh juice. The other two also seemed worried about this. “It's because there's an emergency at work, he'll be back as soon as he can, darling,” I told him with a small smile as I cleaned his arms, which were covered in dirt. “When he comes back, I'm going to ask him to swing me on the swing some more,” Ruby said, already planning what she would do with the man. “I want it too.” Both boys volunteered at the same time. “Well, apparently you're going to want to because it's getting late, and the weather is changing,” April said, pointing with her chin at
Lilian POVThat rainy night, I opened the window and looked down to see a man in the middle of the night in the rain picking up pebbles on the ground to throw at my window.I sucked in air, surprised, when I recognized the man as Jensen. He was getting ready to throw more rocks, but stopped when he saw me there at the window.“What the hell are you doing..?” I whispered to myself, still looking at the man there in the rain.Jensen was looking at me with the pebbles in his hand. He scratched his head, embarrassed, and then signaled, asking me to let him into my house. It was crazy—it was crazy that he was there at that time of night in the rain. For anything he had to deal with, he could have waited until the next morning, or at least when it wasn't raining. I sighed and left the window, putting on a nightgown as I was only wearing a light night dress, then I left my room, and headed towards the door where he was waiting for me.When I opened the door, he was there, soaked by the rain.
Lilian POVHe had his head down. “And that I just… I could only think about them and how much I would be disappointing them, I mean…” He babbled, his face a portrait of his thoughts. He expressed so much pain and regret, like a completely dismayed and lost man, that you could easily see how much he was suffering from it all. “All I could think about was apologizing, Lilie…” He was looking at me now. “I'm tired of being your disappointment, I'm tired of making you so unhappy.”I swallowed hard at his words, holding back the urge to cry. I was aware of how much it affected him, but apparently I had no idea how much he was suffering.“I'm so sorry, Jensen,” I told him at that moment of such tension, and his deep words made me sad too.But he was denying it. “Please don't be,” he said. “I don't want you to feel bad about this because I deserve everything I'm going through; I deserve this suffering.”I sighed and wiped a tear from the corner of my eye. “Don't say that. No one deserves to s