Meant to be のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 31 - チャプター 40

It's been more than a month since Rebecca told Jack the truth about his wife's origins, but she still hasn't said a word to her daughter, and it has been bugging him ever since. Knowing and not being able to tell her was torture. But everything else concerning Maggie and their life together has been absolute bliss.If anyone ever told him, a man who never before understood the point of marriage or relationships with the opposite sex, that he'll be undeniably in love with a most unlikely girl ever, he would laugh and call them a fool.But here he was, utterly in love with a young girl that destiny threw on his way in such an unusual way. He knew now what his instincts were trying to tell him a couple of months ago when he first saw her. Even then, unconsciously, he knew that she was the one, the person that he was supposed to spend the rest of his life with.Jack also noticed that Maggie has cut all of her brakes she had with him. In the beginning, when she agreed to g

    "No! You are not getting out of it again. We're going shopping today, and that's final." Eight months pregnant Emma wasn't giving up. She barged in one morning demanding from Maggie to accompany her to the mall.    "No, Emma, you look like you swallowed a watermelon, and it's not safe for you to just simply go through the stores. Plus, you know very well that your feet will start to hurt before you even make it to the exit of the first shop. Like it did last time…"Maggie and Emma hanged out together often, both going shopping for baby things. Emma was buying things for the newcomer, and Maggie everything she thought was cute, and that reminded her of baby Eric.  But lately, Emma was getting tired easily, so they would stay in most of the time. The driver would drop Emma off and would come to pick her up after the two of them would spend hours talking, eating whatever Emma was craving for, or doing some online shopping, which

"Will this day ever end?" Maggie mumbled the moment she stepped inside the house. First, her suspicions about who Denis Wade was to her were confirmed. Then, she found out that her fiancé knew about it all along. In fact, Rebecca, her own mother, told him before she told her. After that, she found that same fiancé making some kind of deal with her newly discovered father. And now she comes to the place she started to see as her home to find another unpleasant surprise.Maggie noticed an unfamiliar black limo in front of the gate on her way to the garage, and she was wondering who it might be. To her utter surprise, she found Jack's mother sitting in the living room."What was that?" Annabel asked, not sure if she heard Maggie right."Nothing." Maggie had no desire to explain anything to this woman. "Good afternoon," she greeted Annabel, smiling with one of her most polite smiles, the one she mastered in her early days working as a waitress. "If you

In the next couple of days, things in Maggie's and Jack's life returned to normal. He would spend his mornings in the office, taking care of his business and the afternoons and nights with Maggie and his son. Maggie, on the other hand, spent her morning at home with Eric, whom she really got close to. She also got herself busy with sawing since she liked the feeling of creating something new and wearable out of a piece of fabric, though Emma swore her dresses and skirts were attention-worthy. Speaking of Emma, she barged in less often. She was too big now to simply go wherever she wanted. Her delivery date was close, so she stayed home a lot, and Maggie took on herself to visit as much as she could.After that deal she made with Jack, Maggie noticed him being extra clingy towards her. He used every possible chance to touch her and to kiss her, and their heated make-out sessions were starting to get unbearable for Maggie. What started to worry her was that Jack never even insi

    "So, I guess you have something to share with me?" Maggie was trying her best to keep her face straight.    After she showed the living room seating, Maggie brought coffee for all three of them, and now she was sitting across from her mother and her father that were sharing a sofa.    "Well, honey, you see… Den and I have talked, and to cut it short, we've settled our differences and decided that we don't want to lose more time." Rebecca declared, leaving Maggie completely flabbergasted. She suspected something happened since Rebecca didn't call her last night, but she did not expect her parents to get back together after two decades.    Maggie blinked a couple of times, trying to comprehend what she just heard. "I don't understand," she mumbled. "But I guess I don't have to… I just need you to be safe and happy, ok, mom?" she said looking at her mother, ignoring the man that was sitting