Marigold and Daisies (H.S.)

Twenty Eight

Marigold's POV

"Marigold?" My head was buzzing, everything faded besides the bright screen that I couldn't take my eyes off of. "Marigold?" Harry's voice cut through my thoughts, pulling me from the hell that was currently on fire in my head.

My head slowly turned to him and he stared back at me with confusion. His eyebrows furrowed and concern was written all across his face.

"What happened?" He asked softly, his hand reached over the middle console and landed on my shoulder, but I was frozen.

Jacob was going to try to get custody? I mean that would be impossible right? He would never win in a custody battle.

"Marigold." Harry said one more time, shaking my shoulder just the slightest to pull me from my thoughts. His eyes searched my face over and over again trying to figure out what happened within the last 2 minutes that made my mood completely change.

I lifted my phone over to him, he took it in his hand and I watched as his thumb swiped on the screen, scrolling up to the top of the thread from this morning. I watched his face. I watched as his face went from confusion to anger to worry to anger again.

I didn't say a word as he read and reread the texts over and over again. I noticed his jaw clenched tightly as he stared at the phone.

"He can't take her away, Marigold. He isn't going to take her away, he's bluffing. Even if he tried, there's no way the court would grant him custody over you. After everything he put you through when you were in a relationship, even how he treated you at the shop that first day." Harry locked the phone, placing it in the cupholder and turned to me and grabbed onto my hands that were now shaking. I couldn't tell if I was shaking from anger or worry.

"He isn't going to take her away from us, you hear me? I won't let it happen." He stared at me dead in the eye, demanding me to look at him and see that he was serious about this. I nodded my head slowly, feeling slightly comforted by his words.

I knew, logically, that Jacob didn't really have a chance to take her away from me. But the thought that there would even be a small percentage of a chance that he might be able to, that had me shaking.

I called Allie immediately as we drove back to the hotel. Telling her to stay home today with Daisy and to not open the door for anybody.

"Is it okay for you to just come home? Don't you have meetings this week?" I asked, picking at my fingers. Harry is dropping everything to come home with me and it's already eating me up with guilt that I'm pulling him away from work.

"Yes, it's fine. I promise, Marigold. I don't have anything important till Tuesday anyways, I can take the next few days off." He reassured me, loading my bags into my car. "Besides, there's nowhere I'd rather be than home with my girls." He kissed my forehead. With a sigh, I gave in and kissed him goodbye as we both got into our designated cars.

He followed me home and I'm left to my thoughts once again.

I'm so incredibly stupid to think that Jacob has actually changed. He's sweet and kind to us for a little bit and suddenly I'm 20 years old and believing everything he says to me. How stupid of me to think that he was a bigger person now.

What I don't understand is why he's doing this? Why is he trying so hard to get Daisy? There has to be a bigger picture, I have no idea what his endgame is. Jacob has never ever shown interest in kids when we were together, he hated kids. Even when I told him I was pregnant he didn't want her.

Jacob didn't want Daisy to be his kid so badly that he accused me of cheating on him because "no way in hell" is Daisy his child. When he finally believed me, he told me to abort her. He told me to get rid of her because there's no way I would be able to support her on my own and that he's definitely not going to be supporting her.