I landed in Monaco, Max checked in an hotel, said it would be better if he wasn't there for it.
Which I completely understood.
But before I went to Lando's place, I visited Jamie and Jess first.
She texted that she needed to talk to me.
So I walked in their apartment only a few hours later. The both of them flew to Italy a lot of times.
Together and separately.
"Look who's finally back" Jamie laughed as he hugged me. "I couldn't miss you" I chuckled.
But to be completely honest, I really did miss him.
He was the one who could keep me from making stupid decisions, but when I told him that I was gonna come clean to Lando, he said nothing.
Didn't try to stop me. That's when I knew it was the right decision after all.
"I am so glad to see you again" Jess hugged me after. "I don't know what to do anymore"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Francesca finally agreed to do a DNA test, mostly because Lando wanted it" she said as she grabbed some papers, gave them to me.
I quickly scanned through them, but even before I could read it all, she already sighed.
"Chase is her daughter's dad"
I sighed as I looked up from the papers. "How did she react?"
"I didn't tell her yet" she shrugged.
"You told me before her?" I handed her the papers again. "Go tell her Jess, she deserves to know"
Even though I was pretty sure she already had a suspicion about who the dad was.
"But what if Lando is home?" She asked.
"Then you just give her the papers, she should know it first, let her tell Lando"
It was only fair not to completely expose her. Maybe we were dead wrong after all.
"And text me when you leave his apartment" I added. She nodded, walked outside with the papers.
"You sure about this?" Jamie asked. I looked at him, shook my head. "No"
But I still went to Lando's apartment after Jess left. He just let me in, didn't even ask who it was.
Highly suspicious.
I walked in the elevator, pressed the button of his floor and walked to his door.
Knocked on it as quickly as I could. There was no getting out of this anymore.
It took a while, but the door opened and Francesca was standing in front of me.
After hearing stories about her for months, I was finally standing in front of her.
She looked at me, frowned a little. "I am sorry, who are you?"
"Xanthi, I'm a friend of Lando"
She frowned even more, turned around and looked at Lando, who was standing a few meters behind her.
Fuck, I actually didn't plan this scenario in my head. For some reason, I thought she would be alone.
I wanted to confront her first, not with Lando there.
But seeing Lando again, brought back all the memories, all the feelings.
He looked right in my eyes, and so did I.
"Hey you" he mumbled. "Hello" I smiled.
"You're back" he said as he walked closer. I nodded. "I am back"
But I could see from the look on his face that he knew it meant that something was wrong.
I wouldn't have come back for nothing.
