Chapter 93
The frown on Lyra’s face was so scary that no one spoke after she embraced the kids.
She kissed them all on each cheek before saying to Tia
“Would you please take them inside the room”
Tia looked at her with narrowed eyes before calling the kids to her. She noticed that Lyra’s eyes were red and her voice hoarse
“Play them some cartoon so they could watch,” Lyra said to Tia who could only nod at her words
When the children were out of sight, she turned to face Bryan
“As I was saying, Or else what?”
Bryan stood there frozen as he has never seen Lyra this way before. He could feel the heat from where he stood.
“Lyra, what I mean is-”
“I don’t care what you mean Bryan. This should be the last time I would see fear in MY children’s eyes because of you, okay?”
Bryan narrowed his eyes at her words, she had always called the children their own, what’s with the MY now? He wondered
He couldn’t understand why she was behaving that way. He calmed down and walked over to her
“Are you okay, babe? Did something happen in the office?” He asked softly but Lyra moved away from him
“I am not okay. I do not like the way the children are crying all because of you and your words”
“I’m sorry,” Bryan said but she only moved swiftly upstairs. Just when she was ready to have a strong argument with him, he decided to cool down.
She walked up to the kid’s room ignoring Bryan who had been calling her and walking behind her.
When the kids saw her, they ran to her and hugged her tightly. Their mind was never in the cartoon in the first place. They feared that their father would hurt their mother
“Are you okay, mommy?” Miles asked. Lyra nodded before saying
“You all are sweet children. You stood for each other” Miles and Miley nodded with a smile but Ryan wasn’t happy.
“I’m sorry,” he said with his head down.
Lyra frowned at him. She understood what was happening without Ryan saying a word to her so she squatted to meet the boy’s face
“I will be angry at you if you keep apologizing and thinking it is your fault. I would be angry at you if you no longer see me as your mommy”
Ryan’s eyes widened “I can call you, mommy?” He asked and Lyra nodded as she felt her eyes water.
She wanted to slap herself, she had been crying too much, and her eyes were hurting already.
“I told you mommy wouldn’t mind,” Miley chuckled.
“Yes, I wouldn’t mind. Call me mommy if you want” she caressed the boy’s head before planting a kiss on the top of his head
“Thank you” Ryan hugged her tightly.
After the hug, Lyra said to them “You all watch your cartoon while I go change my clothes”.
As she left, Tia followed behind “Are you sure you are okay?” She asked when she saw her best friend looking so down.
She could tell that Lyra was forcing herself to smile. She could tell that she was not fine. Lyra looked at her and sniffed, she wanted to tell Tia everything but she didn’t know how or where to start.
“I’ll be fine,” she said before walking away.
When she entered the room, she met Bryan already on the bed with a laptop on his lap. She looked at him for a long time before walking into the bathroom. He didn’t even look back at her
Lyra cried when she remembered how Ella had boasted that she would ruin her perfect life and she could see it right in front of her crumbling down.
She cried as the water continued to pour on her from the shower.
Ella had really ruined her. When she thought she would find happiness with Bryan. She could never be happy, never.
She came out of the shower after a long time, she couldn’t find Bryan in the room so she knew he had gone down to eat. How does he continue to live with them when he knew he was only playing with them?
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Everyone had gone to sleep after Henri had come to pick up Ryan. He instructed Tia to watch over Lyra because Lyra wasn’t fine but he refused to tell her what had happened.
Tia waited for everyone to go to bed before she made her way to Lyra who sat down on the ground in the backyard.
“Lyra, we need to talk” Lyra felt her heart skip before she nodded for Tia to sit next to her which she did
“What’s wrong?” She asked immediately as she sat down.
Lyra who had been holding it in couldn’t anymore, she opened her mouth to speak only for her words to come out in a painful moan
She bit her lower lip as she didn’t want to cry but couldn’t help it, she burst into tears. Tia held her close as she caressed her
“Shhhhhh”
She kept shaking her head, she wanted to speak but she couldn’t. She wants to pour her heart to Tia, her only friend, and supporter right now but she couldn’t speak. She wailed bitterly
“I shouldn’t have…” She cried as she hit her chest. Tia tried to stop her but she didn’t. As she thought of how she had been betrayed, stabbed right in her heart. How was she going to survive another heartbreak again?
“I’m tired” she cried but Tia only pulled her closer. She didn’t know what her friend was talking about. She didn’t know what was going on but she joined her and cried when she saw how bittered the girl was.
Lyra opened her mouth again but only a painful groan came out.
“He… he.. betrayed me” she finally said. Tia furrowed her brows as she wondered what had happened again. She knew the lady was talking about Bryan but how did Bryan betray her?
“What happened?” Tia asked the girl and Lyra began to narrate everything to Tia after she had calmed down
She knew there was truth to what Ella said so she told Tia absolutely everything
“He is not even the father to Miles and Miley” she cried
Tia’s eyes widened in shock