Ruin The Wedding (The Murphy Brothers #1)

𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

After watching her walk away, Fabian exchanged a knowing look with his younger brother and agreed that maybe they could have handled that better.

At least ask for her permission to stay here to look after her. For his defense, though, Fabian was only focused on making sure that she would be okay and he forgot about the fact that she might not agree to him sleeping on the couch, near her daughter.

The two of them had agreed earlier in the phone call that she shouldn't be left alone so soon after just getting out of the hospital, especially with a screaming toddler. She needed help and time to rest and heal properly which was why one of them would stay here at least the first night.

Well, as long as it was okay with her but the problem with Charlie was that she was awful at accepting help. Almost even worse than Fabian himself. Either way, asking for her permission to stay the night even to help her would have probably helped but it was too late.

Getting up, he followed Asher to Aurora's room which door was closed. Not knowing if it was acceptable to open it, Fabian looked at Asher to see if he had any idea but he only shrugged. Then both of them put their ears to the door, trying to hear anything but there was no noise, not even Aurora's talking.

Taking a risk, Fabian opened it just a little bit to see what was going on but regretted that immediately. The mother and daughter had been laying in the bed together in the dark but now Aurora was up, trying to see who had stepped in the room.

Now Charlie was glaring at him, looking somehow even more pissed off before telling Aurora to get back to bed. Oh, she was trying to get her to sleep. Oops!

Whispering sorry, Fabian closed to door quickly but that's when the screming started and he heard Aurora's tiny feet running before she tried to open the door. Oh god, what has he done? If he knew anything about babies then it was the fact that he should never wake up a sleeping baby or interrupt them trying to get sleep.

"Thanks a lot, Fabian! You're lucky she still doesn't know how to open doors!" Charlie shouted from the other side. Wincing, he yelled another sorry but didn't get any other answer. Then he heard some other noises and a lot of whispering until it was quiet again.

"Damn! Thank god it was you and not me. I'm still on her good side," Asher chuckled.

"No, you're not!" Charlie shouted again from the other room. How the hell did she hear that? Did mothers have some kind of magic hearing?

Realizing that staying here wasn't only dangerous because of how furious she was but it was also creepy to just wait here and not give them any space. Fabian had a feeling that these evenings when Charlie was putting her daughter to sleep were important to her after how busy and stressful the days had been lately.

While waiting for her to get out of there - if she ever did - they stayed sitting on the couch quietly. He didn't know what Asher was doing on his phone, most likely trying to find another date from Tinder, but Fabian decided to spend this time on finally reading Nora's messages. All thirty-five of them. Plus fifteen missed calls.

"Oh, hell no," Fabian cursed to himself, earning a look from Asher. Not wanting to explain this to him and how he had started to have doubts about the marriage, Fabian just shook his head. Knowing his brother, Asher would just smirk and say I told you so like the stupid motherfucker he was.

He had an emergency that he couldn't just abandon for some stupid, boring party and she acted as if Fabian had been away for weeks instead of just two hours. Another warning sign that Fabian had somehow just looked pass earlier but now this was getting more and more on his nerves.

The messages were all pretty similar from asking where he was to telling him that he was pretty much the biggest douchebag in the world to telling him she missed him.