The Chase

Chapter 6

This chapter is dedicated to @khushiJindal9. You have been voting, commenting and also I wanted to personally thank you on a larger scale for giving me the inspiration to want to continue. I've been insecure about my writing lately but your words made me confident. So here you are gorgeous 💕

Jace

She didn't want me around? She wanted me to leave her and Mackenzie alone... I couldn't do that. She was my daughter too.

William was in just as much shock as I was. She had put us all in out places as we tried to control her. She wasn't having it. She was a mother above all else.

"Jacob likes control. He likes to have things go his way. He's written everything out. Painted it out in his head, step by step what's he's going to do. And he'll do anything to gain control of the situation." She said. She was gorgeous. She was stronger than anyone would have thought.

She and the team talked, writing down different things and coming up with different ideas. By the end of the night, everyone had exchanged numbers and dinner was promised soon.

I watched as she left with William following behind her like a lost puppy and I watched as he pushed her into the corner of the elevator and kissed her with passion and love followed by saying things to her that made her anger diminish just a little.

"I'm sorry this has happened to you." Zander said. I nodded and began to gather my things. "I don't know what you could do to get back on her good side again...work for it. Your daughter needs a father and that's not William." He said.

Without saying another word, I left out of the conference room, more confused than when I came in this morning.

I watched from the small button on Clyde's shirt as my daughter shoved cake in her mouth on her first birthday. She was a replica of her mother and she was gorgeous.

William was smiling down at Mackenzie with happiness in his eyes and Rebecca, well, she looked exhausted. It had been one whole year since I had left and I knew she was tired from school, becoming an RN and having a baby.

I wiped away my tears as I watched Rebecca nod off in the corner after our little girl opened her gifts. I didn't want to leave them.

I wanted to be around but with Jacob still looking for me and his will to do anything to break me the way I did him, I couldn't risk my family like that.

I wiped away the tears that ran down my face as I thought about how much I had hurt her and our daughter. More tears spilled as I remembered the day I came back and she said that I didn't love her anymore. I never even got a chance to tell her that I loved her.

Starting my car once I got to the parking lot, I drove to my small apartment. When I got there, a man that I only seen in pictures in Rebecca's phone, sat on my couch. I sighed and ran a hand down my face.

"You faked your death too didn't you?" I asked him as I went to the kitchen and grabbed two beers. He groaned and nodded. Handing him one of the beers, I sat down next to him. "She hates you."

"And she hates you too." Frankie said. "I know what I did was fucked but you left her with a baby after everything that she went through." He told him, drinking most of his bottle.

I hated that he was right. After I left, I knew she was never going to forgive me. Just as I was about to say something, there was a knock on the door.

When I opened the door, I was expecting William to be standing there with two duffle bags in his hands. We both chuckled lightly and I let him in.