Reunited At Last|✔️

2| Old Friend

"What the fuck is Dom doing here?," I asked frantically as soon as Valentina answered the phone call.

"Huh? What are you talking about? Why would Dom be in England?"

"That's what I'm asking you." She stayed silent. "You never told me he has a kid."

"You told me not to update you on everyone's lives. I'm sorry."

It's like I've missed out on such a huge milestone in his life. I wasn't there for him as he spoke about being a father. I wasn't there when he introduced everyone else to his child. I wasn't there and that breaks my heart.

I let out a sigh.

"It's okay. I can't blame you. I'm the one that didn't want to hear anything about them. How's the twins and Vin?"

"They're all fine," she sighed out. "They're all happily giving me a damn headache all the fucking time. The only time I get some peace is when they're all asleep or when the twins are at school."

I let out a chuckle. "Vin still goofy as ever?"

"Maybe even worse." She let out a laugh. "I have some huge news to tell you."

"Spill."

She cleared her throat. "We're engaged!," she squealed. I let out a random noise at my shock.

"He actually proposed? You're actually engaged? You're his fiancée?," I asked throwing these questions her, wanting her to repeat it.

"We're engaged. We're getting married! Oh my god! I cannot believe it! There were rose petals everywhere! And oh my god, it was just exactly how I imagined I would be proposed to!"

I guess he finally got his priorities straight.

"That's amazing!," I said in happiness before realisation dawned on me that I won't be at their wedding. I won't be her maid of honour. I won't be the one to calm her pre-wedding jitters. I won't be there to help her pick out the perfect dress.

She mumbled something about needing to go before cutting the call.

That's the thing I hate about pretending to be dead. I won't be there for the huge fucking milestones.

Faking my death is a crime. It's illegal. But it's nothing compared to all the other crimes I've committed in the past. My new name and identity is identity theft or fraud, I think?

So that adds to my long list of crimes. The one crime I have yet to participate in is a kidnapping. If I'm gonna get arrested, I might as well just try to tick that off my bucket list.

The one thing I was there for was the twins' first everything. I was there the first time they opened their eyes. The first time they crawled. The first time they took their first step. They first time they said a word that actually is a word. The first time they went to school.

I was actually there for all of that.

I switched my lamp off and closed my eyes as I rested in my bed, waiting for sleep to overtake me. A loud noise startled me causing my eyes to snap open as I sat up in my bed. Cautiously, I climbed out of bed and grabbed the random bat that I keep next to it. I'd call it a baseball bat, but it's not one. It might be a tennis one.