All Chapters of The Single Mom's Second Chance: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

I haven’t seen Daniel on the school run all week. I’ve considered messaging him, but what would I even say? ‘Hey, you know the other night when I confessed my feelings to you? I was just kidding!’. There has been an older lady dropping Izzy off and picking her up. I’m assuming it’s Daniels mum. She looks like a kind lady, petite and pretty.Liana has picked up on my low mood and recommended we go away for the weekend. We’ve booked a two-night stay at a spa hotel. I don’t feel up to going but I guess it’s better to mope around at a posh hotel, relaxing by the indoor heated pool and sipping cocktails instead of moping around home alone. Kristian offered to look after Penelope and the children will be with Dylan, hopefully some ‘me’ time will help. I don’t know if I’m feeling so depressed because I feel like I left my soul in Cornwall, or if I’ve been overdoing it being a single working mum. I usually feel slightly low in the winter with the dark night’s drawing in but never this bad. Ho

The next two weeks drift by blissfully. Daniel and I have managed to keep our relationship a secret from the children. We don’t want to tell them until we know for sure that what we have is going to work. Izzy and Rosie have had lots of play dates, and we have eaten dinner together most nights.The children are back with Dylan this coming weekend and Daniel wants to take me out on a proper date. Even though it feels as though Daniel and I have known each other forever, the thought of a date is making me nervous.Liana pops over on Friday after Dylan has picked up the children to help me choose my outfit and to curl my hair. I’ve never been a girly girl, so I appreciate the help. We decide on a fitted black dress that flicks out at the bottom and some wedged heels.“I haven’t seen you smile like this in years” says Liana as she curls the last part of my hair, “you deserve all the happiness”,“Thanks honey and thank you for doing my hair. I honestly still can’t believe this is happening

Thankfully Daniel completely understood why my mum had acted the way she did, and he says he’s well and truly scared of her. Now it’s my turn to meet his mum and I’m feeling extremely nervous. I sit and play with Izzy while we wait for her to arrive. My babies are with Dylan, it’s only a week until Christmas and I’m ecstatic that Christmas falls on my weekend this year.Daniel’s house is decorated beautifully with handmade creations, you can see what a wonderfully doting father he is.Daniels mum arrives. Izzy runs to the door to greet her, “Nanny!”“Hello sweetheart, are you having a nice weekend?”“Yeah, I’m playing with Rosie’s mummy”,Daniel walks his mum into the living room, I stand up to greet her.“Mum this is Alice, Alice this is Anne, my mum”,I put my hand out to greet her, ‘please shake my hand’, I think to myself,“Nice to meet you” I say as she takes my hand to shake, ‘yes, success!’Anne looks me up and down, “Hello” she replies and then walks into the kitchen. Anne ign

Thankfully Daniel’s neighbours had noticed the flames quickly and called the fire fighters before the fire caused any damage internally, so he and Izzy still have a home to go back to. I’m disgusted at Dylans behaviour, he could have killed an innocent man and child. Stupidly I didn’t screenshot his messages, so I have no proof it was him to offer to the police. I don’t know what’s going on in his head, but I know what I must do. I need to break up with Daniel.I’m devastated, but it’s the only way to keep him and Izzy safe. I can’t tell Daniel about Dylans threats as I know he’ll never accept that breaking up is the right thing to do.I tell Daniel I need to drive the children to school the next morning as I have an appointment with their headteacher and asked if we could meet afterwards. I informed the head of Dylan’s actions, and the school is aware that under no circumstances is Dylan allowed to collect the children, and if he is seen they are to call the police immediately. I als

Waking up the next morning, I feel rough, my head is pounding, and my face feels wet, actually, my whole body feels wet. I open my eyes, and I’m covered in damp tent. I hear the lads outside giggling.“Liana are you awake?”“mmmm”“Those dickhead boys have pulled all the pegs out of our tent!” Liana attempts to sit up, but we’re lost inside the wet material. We struggle around trying to find the zip to get out of the tent and the laughter from outside gets louder.“You wait till we’re out of here” shouts Liana “I’m going to hunt you down!”I feel like hiding in my sleeping bag for the rest of the day. I’m tempted to message Daniel to see how he’s doing. I just want to know that he’s ok, it’s driving me crazy not speaking to him.Liana see’s me staring at my phone,“what’s up chick?”“I just want to know that he’s ok. My heart didn’t hurt like this when I found out about Dylan’s affair. I feel like mine and Daniels paths crossed for a reason”,“So, tell him why you had to break up with