When The Stars Align

Chapter 80

Two days flew off quickly. Corey left me thousands of messages apologizing but I didn't show up at work those days. I couldn't go there and face him. I wasn't ready for that. I decided not to press charges, though Belle and James were pretty much against it, but I had my reasons. Deep inside I knew Corey would never do anything like that, and little by little I began to let that go. It wasn't a trauma or anything. I even thought about getting a new job, because I didn't want to work with him or anywhere near him, I didn't even want to talk to him ever in my life. I would never forgive him for what he did, almost raping me. James was the worse, the hard time he was giving me on the phone for pressing charges was though, but I decided to protect him and Sarah, who was old enough to understand what happened and I didn't' want her to know.

"Belle can you please, give that diaper over there." I pointed at the blue flannel diaper on the couch. She threw it to me, and I thanked her.

"Going to feed Tyler?" She asked.

"Yeah, upstairs in my room, there's too much noise here and he might sleep then. I want a quiet environment, so he calms down."

"Lars called me, they're already at the airport, but they got stuck with someone's luggage, so they have to wait, and I couldn't understand the rest, you know how fast he talks when he gets excited telling things." She laughed.

"Dad is almost here!" Sarah jumped and clapped.

"Yeah, but he's gonna be tired, so go easy on him." I said. I grabbed Tyler, who was getting a bit cranky. "I am going to feed him, otherwise he's gonna start screaming at the top of his lungs." I said smiling at my baby boy, then I kissed his forehead and took him upstairs. I sat on my bed with Tyler in my arms feeding him. I looked down at my baby and watched him. His blue eyes staring at mine made me smile. "You have just your father's eyes, even your stare is the same." I said. Tyler was a month and a half, but he was growing up fast. As I predicted when he was finished with his bottle he fell into deep sleep, not even giving me time to change is diaper. I still did so, because he usually used to soil it during his meal, then I put him in his crib and turned the electronic nanny on. I looked down at him one more time with my motherly heart melting with sweetness and love for that tiny baby. Then the noise of the door opening made me look back and this tall figure came in. James dropped his bags and ran to me and took me in his arms in a strong embrace. He squeezed me so much I could hardly breathe.

"Oh baby..." I whispered holding onto to him. "I missed you so much." I said.

"How are you?" He asked pulling away a bit and cupping my face between his hands. James was still too worried about what happened, but I could understand him, he wasn't here, he wasn't with me, so he didn't know how I was doing.

"I am ok." I said.

"I'm gonna kill that motherfucker Andrea!" He affirmed.

"Leave him alone, look...I almost don't think about it anymore, he has apologized a lot of times, though I don't talk to him nor I want to. He regrets it." I explained.

"He does that to you and then regrets it and it's ok? No...I don't accept that. I don't understand why you don't want to press charges; you still can do it. He has to pay for what he did."

"James, you just got here. Do you really want to talk about this? Look...Your son is in the crib, look at how gorgeous he is." I smiled. James backed off and relaxed a bit and peeked at the crib and he melted right there.

"He's so grown up. He was so tiny when I left and look at how big he is now."

"He is not that big! He's still so little." I laughed.