SORRY

Chapter 71. Overtaken

Briana POV

“Why didn’t you fight back? Why did you sign the divorce without telling me about the babies?”

My eyes rolled to the back of my head in annoyance.

“How can you put the blame on me? You wanted the divorce. You threatened to sue me for murder if I didn’t agree to your terms. Why has it become my fault now when I only wanted to protect my children from their ruthless father?” I lashed back, not understanding where we were headed with this conversation.

“You could have told me about them. You could have told the truth back then.” He

was angry, but I was angrier.

How can he fire those words at me like a loose cannon when he was never in my shoes?

I am a mother, and my first job as a mother is to protect my kids.

“I will always choose my children’s safety over you anytime.” I snarled to his face.

I don’t get it.

He was the one who initiated the divorce, but now he was trying to insinuate that it was my fault that the children did not know their father.

How can I stay and fight when I don’t see any reason to fight?

I carefully pried my hand away from Mason’s hold, thankful he did not make a fuss.

I checked if he was still breathing. I don’t know. It had become a habit since they were babies, and I read about those horrifying stories about babies dying in their sleep.

I did the same to the other two before getting out of bed and opening the door to the balcony. I looked into the night sky while I tried to control myself before it spiraled

I

out of control.

Then, I felt Noah’s presence beside me. He, too, looked at the darkness before us.

“My first instinct at the time was to keep the babies safe. To find a haven for them

because our current setup was undesirable. It was not conducive for the children. I

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was pregnant back then, mourning the loss of the two people who I considered the closest thing to my parents. Then, the man who should have been there to protect me divorced me. I was lost. My brothers go me a sanctuary, and I took it. Was it wrong? Was it a crime that I chose their safety over what is right or wrong?” I told him bluntly.

It was pointless to discuss this now because the deed has been done. Five years have passed, but to let it off my chest was a relief.

Somehow, unburdening everything out on Noah caused me to find a little bit of solace.

He wanted the truth. And I told him the truth.

Even if it hurts me just to recall them in my head.

“The last five years were not easy. Waking up at night when they cry to feed and change their diapers. My brothers helped, but it was not the same.”

“Sometimes, they would cry and catch a fever at the same time because of teething pains, and I only had two hands, so it was tricky as to who would get comforted first. But I managed. The triplets and I managed.”

“It would have been the same if you didn’t show up. We could have been happy in our little world, just the four of us, but no, you have to charge in and demand your father duties that I denied you for five years, and you think it was that easy?”

“While you were busy cozying up to your first love, I was busy coping with motherhood and rebuilding myself because my children needed their mother to be strong for them. They needed a mother who could defy all the bad things in this world for them.”

I was openly crying now. My shoulders shook with my sobs.

I could not help it. Remembering the last five years hurt me in ways I could not imagine.

I didn’t know that the cut Noah left in my life was too deep.

In one move, Noah turned me toward him. Then, he grabbed my chin to tilt it upwards while his head bent down to capture my lips in a searing kiss.

Noah kissed me with a hunger that I had never known he possessed. He kissed me like there was no tomorrow.

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And I allowed him.

Again, I let my feelings for him overtake everything else.