Chapter 51. Rough Day

AIDAN

‘We will be out of your hair by the time you return,’ Tara said.

Did she not know that I wanted nothing more than for her and our daughter to be all tangled up in my hair with no way of getting loose?

‘If you ever will,’ she said.

Fuck.

Her words played in my head on constant repeat as I drove back to the hotel, having canceled every other of my plans for the day. I couldn’t be productive in my state, so I just went back to my suite.

And yes, immediately I got to my room, the first place I headed was to the minibar to pour myself a glass of my thousand-year-old cognac. The strongest.

If the circumstances we were in were completely different and Tara had said those words to me, I would have been offended by it. But this? This was well deserved.

She deserved to know, and I was a douchebag for not having the guts to open up to her, but even if I wanted to, I couldn’t. It was just too much.

So what did I do? I