His Queen (18+)

Chapter II

THE PROMISE

❝No one's ever gonna hurt you, love.
I'm gonna give you all of my, love.
Nobody matters like you.❞

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CHAPTER II

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MEETING MY MOTHER couldn't have gone anymore wrong. I had been building up to this moment for months, thinking that after doing it, I would finally be at peace.

But I wasn't.

I had more questions running through my mind than I had before I met her and it was eating me up as I got into the car and began driving away.

Did I want to meet my father? I couldn't remember him. The last time I had seen him, I was only young and according to what I knew, he didn't have a hand in our separation. He had still made a deal with me though. A deal selling me for protection.

That was enough reason to go after him.

I had no idea what this deal meant. Who was involved and what were the terms? Was there a loophole? A specific clause for me that could result in the termination of it?

Did everything change now that I had Mateo, or was it only going to get more violent? I knew that the attacks on me stopped once I had given birth to my son, but for how long? What were the reasons?

This wasn't how the meeting was supposed to go. I should've been driving home with a clear mind and peace within my heart, but instead I was questioning everything from the start all over again. Questioning everything that I had ever known.

Soon I found myself driving down the familiar road lined with suburban houses. I parked in front of the large, white one with sixty-five nailed to the grey door before getting out of the car and running up to the porch.

I hadn't taken my finger off the doorbell before it swung open, revealing a familiar face to me.

“Aunty!” Max exclaimed, wrapping his arms around my waist and resting his head on my stomach as I laughed and ruffled his hair.

“How are you?”

“I'm fine,” he muttered into my stomach, not minding the way I ruffled up his 4c hair. It was soft to the touch so whatever Morgan was doing was working well. “I missed you.”

“I missed you too, sweetheart,” I said, pulling away from him and crouching down so I was his height. “I promise one day I'm going to take you out and we'll spend the whole day together. Just you and me.”

He beamed, wrapping his thin arms around my neck and really squeezing into me. I couldn't help but laugh again. Max wasn't a huge fan of Teo, but he seemed to adore me.

“Come on! Morgan and grandma are in the sitting room.” Ge latched onto my hand and pulled me towards the sitting room, not hesitating to announce my presence as soon as we stepped in. “Morgan! Look who's here!”

Both Morgan and her mother, Rachel, looked up at us at Maxwell's declaration.

Morgan's mother, Rachel, seemed to be the exact replica of Morgan with long, tumbling red hair and vibrant green eyes. Her smile warmed the heart of the coldest people.

The little boy who was sound asleep on her lap suddenly jumped, his eyes wide and alert until they settled on me. He grinned and reached out for me.

“Mama!”

I couldn't help but stare in stunned silence for a moment. My son was reaching out for me, but I could only focus on how much he looked like Daniel when he smiled. Even with a pacifier in his mouth, he was the carbon copy of his father.