As soon as Chloe walked into the flat she hurried into the living room, desperate to check on her baby. She breathed a sigh of relief as she entered the room and noticed Freyja sleeping soundly in Lee's arms.
"You're back early Chlo Bo." Duncan stated, smiling at her as she walked into the room.
"I did say that I wasn't going out for long." she said quietly, her eyes fixed on her baby as she sat beside Lee on the sofa. She slowly tucked her legs onto the sofa, quickly pulling off her heels, gently massaging her sore feet.
"Are the others still out?" Ben asked.
"Yes, I wanted to come home early, so I walked back." she told him.
"You walked home!" Duncan said quickly.
"Yes." she said quietly, rolling her eyes when he raised his eyebrow at her.
"That wasn't the safest thing to do since it's dark and you were alone." he continued. Chloe shrugged, not really in the mood for a lecture, when she always seemed to do something wrong anyway.
"You could have called one of us, we would have come and collected you." Ben piped up.
"Oh whatever." she said shortly, her eyes wandering to Freyja as she stirred in Lee's arms.
"I'll take my baby back." she said firmly, quickly holding out her arms to take Freyja. Lee nodded slowly, carefully placing her into Chloe's arms. Chloe smiled, her heart pounding against her chest as she stared down at her baby, finally feeling complete now that she was reunited with the person that was most precious to her.
"Hey, baby girl. Have you been good." she whispered, placing a soft kiss on Freyja's forehead.
"She has actually." Lee told her.
"You're always good though aren't you." she said, completely disregarding his comment.
"Aww did you miss me." she continued, her heart bursting with pride as Freyja smiled, the sound of Chloe's voice clearly relaxing her. Lee smiled at his baby, his heart pounding against his chest when he noticed her smiling up at Chloe.
"I haven't seen her smile before." he muttered.
"She does it quite a lot." Chloe said quietly.
"Only at you though." Danny chuckled. Chloe nodded slowly, a small smile playing on her lips when Freyja yawned.
"I think you're ready for bed." she said quietly, slowly standing up and walking through to the bedroom. As soon as Chloe reached the bedroom, she sat on the bed, carefully placing Freyja into her crib and pulling her blanket over her.
"I hope your Dad took good care of you while I was gone." she whispered, softly stroking Freyja's cheek with her finger, smiling to herself as Freyja's eyelids fluttered closed, the sound of Chloe's voice relaxing her. Chloe sighed in contentment, not quite able to tear her eyes away from her baby. She jumped as she heard a small tap on the open bedroom door and Lee walked into the room.
"I just came to let you know that I'm going to head off." he said quietly, his eyes darting over her body. She nodded slowly, her gaze fixed on the floor.
"I'm in Nottingham for the weekend, so can I come over tomorrow?" he asked tentatively.
"If you want." she said quietly, quickly standing up. A small smile played on the corner of her lips when she finally glanced up at him and noticed the way that he was staring at her. The look of deep longing on his handsome features as his eyes wandered over her figure. In all of the time that they'd been together, she couldn't remember a time when he'd ever looked at her with such lust.
"How come you said I look amazing earlier?" she said quietly, smirking to herself when he cleared his throat.
"Because you do." he said quietly, his heart pounding against his chest as he stared at the beautiful woman standing in front of him. He placed his hands in his pockets, desperately trying to resist the urge to reach out and touch her. He'd have given anything to place his hands on her waist and pull her close. To feel her perfect body pressed against his. He swallowed the lump that was rising in his throat as she walked towards him, stopping when was standing in front of him, her body mere inches from his. His heart pounded against his chest as she gazed up at him through her eyelashes, biting the corner of her lip. He removed his hand from his pocket, his fingers twitching as he tried to fight the urge to touch her. His eyes flickered to her lips as he slowly turned his head towards her. He jumped when Chloe quickly turned her face away from him before he could kiss her.
"Don't." she said firmly. He sighed deeply, resting his forehead on her shoulder, inhaling her familiar scent, his breathing short and shallow.
"I know how much you still want me." she whispered, a small smile playing on the corner of her lips.
"Um hum." he mumbled against her shoulder, not really trusting his voice.
"But you are never going to have sex with me again." she whispered in his ear, glancing down at his groin and smiling in satisfaction when she realised that she'd achieved what she'd set out to do.
"But Chlo." he whispered, a note of pleading in his voice.
"I'm not your Chlo anymore remember." she said firmly.
"You can go now." she added, placing her hand on his chest and pushing him out of her personal space.
"Really?" he asked incredulously.
"Yep." she replied shortly, gesturing towards the bedroom door.
"Are you really going to tease me like that and then just tell me to leave?" he said shortly.
"Oh wait.....did you actually think that I would sleep with a cheat?!" she exclaimed, bursting out laughing.
"Oh whatever Chloe." he said shortly.
"What's the deal with Danny living here all the time?!" he continued angrily, finally releasing the hurt he'd been keeping in check.
"Oh here we go again." she sighed.
"You're so wrapped up in jealousy aren't you. First you didn't want Kyle around and now you don't want Danny here either." she snapped, still not entirely sure why he seemed so determined to interfere in her life.
"I just don't understand why you seem so determined to replace me in my daughter's life. Everyone seems to know more about her than I do!" he exclaimed.
"Like what?" she rounded on him, raising her eyebrow.
"He knows that she doesn't like being bottle fed and what times she likes to feed. I didn't even get to see her first smile." he pointed out.
"It's not my fault that you don't live with us, you're the one that threw that away." she snapped.
"Yeah but Danny gets to live with you, I bet you didn't even think to ask if I would like to be around my baby all the time for the first few weeks." he snapped back.
"No you're right, I should have to live with my cheating ex-fiancee, just so that you get what you want yet again and who cares how difficult it is for me to be around you all the time." she said shortly, shaking her head in disbelief.
"You're unbelievable." she muttered.
"Everything that I do, you always want more. I left her with you tonight, you got to feed her which you've been nagging me to do for weeks and now you're onto the next thing." she added.
"Just forget it, you're not listening to me." he sighed, running his hand through his hair in frustration.
"I'll talk to you about it tomorrow." he added, starting to walk towards the door.
"No you won't, there's nothing to talk about. You don't get to tell me who is in my life!" she called after him.
