The Mother of Surprises

DESTINY

Despite what I told James earlier, I was scared. Scared that I wouldn’t be a good mother. Scared that James would drop me. Scared that his father would follow through on his threat to take the child. The supposed child. I wasn’t even pregnant yet. Maybe the procedure wouldn’t work. What would James do then? Would he let me go? That thought terrified me the most.

I was so in love with him. But he didn’t love me. I know he told me he loved me on our wedding day, but that was just to get me to agree to go through with it. That was the problem with James, he was so used to lying, I doubt he even realized that he was a pathological liar.

Looking at him, sleeping like an innocent next to me while I was wide-awake, one would never say he was the wild Billionaire playboy people made him out to be. I stroked his dark brown hair away from his brow, gazing at his handsome face, committing every line to memory as if he could be gone in the morning. Tracing the lines of his dragon tattoo o