Baby Girl //Dolan Twins |✅

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Chapter Thirty-Six: "High Rise"

Baby Girl's POV

"JUST STOP IT OKAY!?" I silently yell.     

We were in the middle of a fight, and the twins just so happened to be sleeping. I look at both Grayson and Ethan. They were both mad as hell. Grayson grips the paternity test in his hand, holding it out.

"Why would you lie to me, Baby girl?" Ethan asks. I felt like I was having a repeat convo with Grayson, and it was tiring.

I look at him with my arms folded. "Because we both know that you were desperate, and I couldn't hurt you. I also didn't want to ruin Grayson's life."

His face reddens. "But it's okay to ruin mine? That doesn't make one damn bit of sense."

I stand beside Gray, preparing for the worst. I didn't want the two of them fighting. I had seen what Grayson was capable of, and the thought of anything happening scared me.

"I'm sorry Ethan. I am. I don't know what I was thinking," I apologize.

"So what now? I'm just supposed to stop being there for the twins?" his voice begins to break.

I shrug uncomfortably, "No. You're still their uncle."

That didn't seem to make anything better. I focus on the stairs. Mel walks down with Wyatt in her arms.

"This one just never rests,"she jokes before handing him to me. I kiss his forehead and look over to Ethan. He looked sad and lost, and I felt bad. Everything was truly my fault this time.

Mel notices the tension in the room. "What's going on?" she asks. 

Grayson hands her the paper. She takes a minute to briefly scan it.

"What the hell?" she curses.

"That's what I said when I saw it," Gray says, taking the paper back. He was chill about everything, but he did look a little on edge.

"Does Mom know about this?"

I shake my head. I had no intentions of her finding out so soon, but now that plan was ruined.

"What the fuck, Jade! Why would you lie about something like this?"

I explain to her how I felt. I felt like I was telling the same story over and over, and I was tired of it. Sacrifice was something that she would never understand.

"I just wanted what was best for the kids."

Grayson raises his eyebrow. "What's best for them is having their actual father in their life. You can't just lie about something like this just because it benefits your feelings."

"I know that. But-"

"There's no buts, Baby Girl. It's self-explanatory."

"Do you think I slept good at night knowing that I was lying? If so, you're wrong. It was torture keeping this a secret."  I wanted them to understand, but they weren't getting it. 

"What you did was selfish," Ethan says. "It had nothing to do with anyone else."

I disagree, "You really think that I would purposely push Grayson away for my own good? I love him, and I was willing to living a life without him."

"That's all lies. Even I loved him more than you ever did, " Mel argues.

I advert my eyes to her, giving her the dumbest look ever. Did she really just pull that card?

"Bitch, you blackmailed him! How the fuck is that loving him more than me?"

Grayson scratches his head. He was trying his best not to get involved.

"Really? You're going to bring that up?  You know what, fuck you Jade. I wish that neither one of them was the father! I don't even see how anyone could sleep with someone like you, in the first place" Mel scoffs.

I hand Wyatt to Ethan and slap the hell out of her. She takes a minute to process what had just happened. Her face was red and her jaw was on the ground.

"You're such a bitch," she curses.

"Have you ever even looked in a mirror?"

She jumps at me and we roll onto the floor. Her hair gets into my mouth, and I pull before I start punching her.

"You're....so... Immature! Grayson should be with me!" she yells. She bites me, and I knee her in the stomach. I flip her over as I start banging her head on the ground. I could hear Wyatt screaming at the top of his lungs. I continue to punch Mel until I felt a pair of arms lift me. Even then, I was still kicking and screaming.

"Let it go Baby Girl!" Grayson screams, holding me back. He pulls me into the corner and facea me.

"You're scaring our son, okay? Just let it go."

I start to breathe heavily. I look over his shoulder. Mel was pulling herself up off the floor.

"I hate you!" she screams.

I shoot a bird at her and blow my hair out of my face. It was everywhere. I hear a distant cry. It was Winter. Our commotion had waken her up. I groan and make my way upstairs, cursing under my breath the whole time.

"Fuck you and your children," Mel mutters. Her makeup was smeared and she looked exactly like what she was, a clown. "You all deserve each other."

Halfway up the stairs, I run down and try to pounce at her again, but Grayson grabs me before I can even touch her. "You're so evil!"

She laughs, and it makes me hate her guts even more. I remove Grayson's grip and walk up the stairs to the nursery. He follows behind me, making sure I don't go crazy again. Ethan, heartbroken, sits on the bottom stair holding Wyatt, contemplating what just happened.

I open the door and sweep my hair out of my face. Once I pick her up, Winter instantly stops crying. I shaks her a bit and slip the pacifier in her mouth. Grayson wraps his arms around both of us. My adrenaline was still pumping from the fight. I growl and curse, but he shushes me.

"I'm so done with her," I whisper as Winter falls back asleep. Grayson places his head on my shoulders and rocks back and forth, and it made me want to fall asleep too.

"Don't worry, she'll get what she deserves."

I make a disapproving noise. "When?"

He lifts his head up. I start to pat Winter on the back.

"Let's not worry about her. Okay? You're my woman Baby Girl, not her."

I snicker, "I'm not your woman, Grayson."

He stops rocking, and looks down at me. "Don't be such a feminist."

I laugh. "I am a feminist, and not all of us are bad. I just don't like the term. It's too possessive."

"What if I am possessive?"

"Well, that's just too bad for me, I guess."

He kisses me. "We make a great team."

"That, we can agree on."

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