Harrison's POV
I might be losing my mind in London. My mind is constantly thinking about Penelope. I could not focus on anything but my damn ex-wife.
"I am going to go home." Penelope says sighing. "Were so fucking stupid." She pushes me back as she walks out the room.
"Ash." I say following him into the kitchen.
"Ashley-James act like an adult. Ashley-James stop being immature. Ashley-James be a good role model for your siblings." Ashley mimicks me I guess. I roll my eyes and look at him as he was swiping things off the table. Ashley-James even at 18 was unable to regulate his emotions. I could not blame him because I have struggled with controlling my anger until well I was not sure when?
"Stop. Stop." I say as Ashley was causing a mess in my kitchen. The days he was smaller were so much easier, I could contain his little hands and now he was my height and built.
"You guys are so unbelievably selfish." He says walking past me but I stop him.
"Ash, It is nothing. It means nothing. Promise." I say.
"So you guys arent getting back together?"
"No." I say and he rolled his eyes and storms off. He walks off and I do not try to stop him again.
I take the kids out for dinner and say my goodbye's the next morning. I needed to go back to New York. I was supposed to go the day after but I decided to head out early after I took the kids to school. It was always hard saying bye to them however as they got older and more used to it, they made it easier... which was almost more difficult.
"When you back again?" Ruby asks as she jumps out the car in her school uniform.
"I will be back soon, three weeks ish." I say and she nods fixing her skirt. She looked more and more like her mother every day. "Bye dad!" Riley says as he walks over to me swinging his bag over his shoulder. "Love you buddy, be good." I tell him as I bend down to his height hugging him and kissing his face. "Byeeeee." He yells running off into the gates.
"Facetime me anytime yeah?" I say to Ruby who nods. "Okay." She says as I hug her too. "I love you princess." I say. "I love you too dad." She says smiling at me. I kiss her cheek and she runs off into the school too. I take Azaiah out of his car seat and kiss his face hugging him. "So make sure you do not let Ri or Rue bully you into anything okay?"
"Okay." He giggles as I walk him over to his teacher. "Love you buddy." I say but he was distracted with the kids that were running around.
I text Penelope that I had dropped the kids at school and was heading back to New York. A mopey pissed off Ashley grunted at me this morning half asleep.
Usually my communication is through Rachel however Penelope and I got into a much friendlier place of communicating I guess. I regret sending the text when she just ignores it. What was I waiting for? I was being a fucking idiot and I knew it.
Back in New York, I text the nanny as I could see Lila's work schedule. She was in a meeting so I tell the nanny I will pick up Roman from kindergarten.
"Hey baby boy." I say as he waddles over. I pick him up throwing him in the air kissing his cheek. "Thank you." I tell the teacher as she hands me his bag.
"Daddy." He says smiling. "I missed you Ro." I say as I put him in the carseat driving home. Lila was home since the alarm was disabled. I felt like fucking shit for my behaviour whilst in London. Now that I was in New York my head needed to be cleared. I bought Lila some flowers and some of her favourite chocolates.
I can't find the housekeeper and I walk up stairs to find Lila holding Roman on my arm. I walk into Lila's office but she was not in there. Maybe she wasn't home and she forgot to turn the alarms on before she left. Then again, I did see her car outside, she was always too lazy to put it in the garage.

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In Between The Good and Bad
ChickLitWhat can go wrong when the perfect man proposes to you after 5 dates and you get married 6 months later? Harrison is the charming young bachelor who comes from wealth, has insane good looks and is business savy. When he meets Penelope, the blonde b...