One of a Kind - A KathNiel Story

Chapter 99

Kath pushed the stroller into the coffee shop, heading straight through to the garden area at the back of the shop - the same place she caught up with Enrique. It was quieter outside, which would mean Dylan could get some rest.

"Hey!" Liza greeted, giving her best friend a hug and Kath sat with her at the table under the parasol, smiling as Liza cooed over the baby, giving her a kiss. "Oh, she's getting so big."

"She's still tiny for her age, though, my little bean." Kath cooed, making Liza laugh but she bit her lip as Kath slid over a piece of paper and an envelope over to her. Liza didn't even read the paper, she just put it at the back of the paperwork from the adoption agency. "You don't want to read your reference?"

"I trust you... we're family, remember?" Liza said with a smile and Kath smiled back.

"Are you and Enrique adopting together?"

"No... just in case we break up. We haven't been together too long, we don't live together - I just have to say that I have a boyfriend who doesn't live with me and he has a two-year-old. What's this?" Liza picked up the envelope, opening it and she instantly put it back down when she saw money inside it. "Nope." She said instantly, sliding it back but Kath held onto her wrist to make her stop.

"I know how expensive this can be... and I want you to put the rest towards adopting Alex. Enrique told me this morning how much Alex adores you - it's like me with Noah, something just... clicked." Kath breathed and Liza took in a deep breath.

"I do wanna adopt him at some point," Liza admitted after a moment and Kath smiled.

"Exactly... then use the money for that, you can save it somewhere until then. Let it gather interest in a bank account! Then that interest can be your adopted child's college fund." Kath smirked and Liza couldn't help but laugh.

"You really have all of this figured out, huh?" Liza teased and Kath grinned.

"I do," Kath said, and she lifted Dylan out of her stroller, holding the baby girl against her chest and she rubbed her back slowly to soothe her and let her sleep in the quiet outside as she started to help Liza to fill in the application form for the adoption agency.

It took a little under two hours to fill in all the paperwork, having to leave some sections blank because they had to be filled in by the agency. Liza smiled when she looked over at Dylan, seeing her sound asleep against Kath's chest.

"She's completely passed out," Liza said and Kath looked down, smiling and she kissed the top of Dylan's head softly.

"Jasmine was hurting Noah," Kath admitted and Liza's jaw dropped, all traces of her smile gone.

"Wait, what?"

"She'd been scaring him for a while... started off telling him that I left because I didn't love him anymore and she said he'd soon see the truth when he stood up and said he knew I loved him... he heard her on the phone to her Dad, so we know she lied to DJ about the sob story about why she left - she wanted to get custody of Noah so that DJ would pay her a lot of money every month in child support because we all know DJ wouldn't just pay what he had to... she told her Dad on the phone that she'd even give Noah back to us if I paid her enough money - she'd hold her own son for ransom money... she threatened that she'd drop Dylan if he told us what he knew and she'd make it look like an accident... she hit him with her stiletto." Kath pulled up the pictures on her phone, showing them to Liza and her eyes instantly burned with tears to see the boy she loved as her nephew covered in bruises - it was clear that it was a stiletto that hit him just by the shape of each bruise.

"But he told you?"

"DJ touched his shoulder and he practically burst out crying... he told us everything and we spent the morning with the police, which is why this one is passed out right now - she didn't get her morning nap until now," Kath said, rubbing Dylan's back slowly.

"But Noah's okay?"

"To be honest, he's the happiest I've seen him since Dylan was born... Jasmine's out of his life, we came home..." Kath bit her lip when she saw DJ's name light up on her phone as it started to ring and she answered it before it could wake Dylan. "Hey, handsome."

"Noah heard us last night." DJ hissed and Kath burst out laughing.

"I think you'll find he heard YOU last night." Kath corrected, Liza, bursting out laughing, able to guess what was going on.

"What do I tell him?! He wants to know why I was making that noise!" He begged.

"I have no idea... good luck with that," Kath smirked, hanging up the phone, laughing with Liza.

"You're not gonna help him out?"

"Nope! I might even get a brownie whilst I'm here, it'll give him time to answer all of Noah's questions." Kath smirked, laughing with Liza.