Wife of fortune

Chapter 31

GRAYSON

I walk out of the room. I'm not sure what to think of what to do. I grab my jacket and walk past everyone in the living room and get out of the house. I jump in my car and drive to the closest bar.

I really need a drink. I had not planned for this to happen. And it's not even the fact that she's pregnant but that she knew for so long and didn't say a word. All this time, she was carrying my child and I didn't know and let her put herself in danger.

I sat by the bar and order a drink and only ten minutes later Cole comes and sits next to me.

"How did you find me?" I ask him as I spin the whiskey in my glass.

"I followed you" he says and orders himself a drink and waits for the bartender to give it to him.

"What happened?" He asks after taking a sip and putting his glass down.

"Kate's pregnant" I say and look at Cole who raises his brows in surprise.

"Aren't you a safe sex God? You're always on my ass about it, you're always careful" Cole sounds confused.

"I never was with her" it's true, when she was around my head was in a different space, I never thought of anything but her.

"Shit man" Cole says "well congratulations"

"Thanks" I say and take another sip letting the whiskey burn its way down to my stomach.

"You don't sound very excited" He sips from his glass again and turns around in the chair so now he's looking over the whole bar.

"She knew for a month, and she didn't say a word to me about it" I empty the glass and order another drink.

"How far along is she?" Cole asks and stares at a woman that walks by.

"3 months" I say and also turn around in the chair. "For a month she knew and I let her put her life in danger again and again and she said nothing"

"She's not gonna let you lock her up in a house now too" Cole says "you know her, and if you try to control her, she's gonna push back even more" everything he says is true.

"What are you gonna do?" Cole asks after a brief moment of quite.

"The hell do I know"

"You're the closest thing I have to a brother but sometimes you think too much of the future, live in the moment, you're gonna be a daddy, maybe it'll turn out better than you think" Cole says and my head remembers todays events.

"She shot her own mother to save me" I say more to myself than him. Cole looks at me and I finish off with "and then killed Ivan"

"Not once did she think of herself, she didn't even think when she pulled the trigger she just did" And I was so proud but yet I can still remember how my heart was racing when I walked in there and saw her mother holding a gun to her head.

In that moment I was ready to kill everyone, even myself if that meant her being safe. I never in my life want to have her in that situation again. And when I got that voicemail, I was out in seconds, I've never driven so fast. And all I was thinking is why, why would she go there alone, why she didn't tell anyone.

"She loves you, even if you don't want to believe it" Cole says and that brings me out of my thoughts. "Since the day she walked in and put you back in your place I knew that if there was a woman on this earth for you it was her, but today, what she did, and the tracker and everything, that was just something else, I didn't think she had it in her"

"She's always one step ahead" I say and Cole nods. "I fucked up" I say quietly more to myself.

"Happens to the best of us" Cole breathes before emptying his glass.