Her Adopted Baby's Daddy

Chapter 52

Jules didn't know what to do with all the new information she was getting. Important bits of his life he had kept from her, someone he claimed to love.

"That first day I showed up at your house," He began "it wasn't because you were the woman I had given a ride to the night before. It was because that was the address where my daughter lived."

Jules looked up at him after a moment, eyes wide and filled with tears. She could barely see him as her gaze had gone blurry. She shook her head continuously.
"I-Ivy?" She asked even though she already knew the answer to it.

Ceaser hated seeing her in tears so he looked away, nodding.
"Yes."

Jules choked a sob as she connected the dots. He wanted to destroy the woman with his daughter which just so happened to be her.

"I didn't know what to think." He said "The two times I had met you, you were just a woman with a daughter and you seemed like an amazing one. Then I realize your daughter is my daughter." He took her hands "Believe me, Jules, I didn't know what to do."

Jules took a step back as she ran everything that had happened in her head. Why he stayed away from her, why had been weird around her the first few times after he had shown up at her place. She looked at him.
"What did you decide to do with me?"

Ceaser shook his head.
Not that question.
"Jules don't ask..."

"Tell me!" She raised her voice.

Ceaser swallowed.
"I was going to get you to fall in love with me..."

"You mean seduce me." She said

He let out a breath
"...marry you, adopt Ivy, divorce you and fight for custody."

Jules gasped as the tears she had been holding back fell down her face.
"Is that what this is?" She asked a moment later.

Ceaser looked at her like she was crazy.
"No!" He walked to her "No. Never. I would never do that to you."

"Except you almost did." She said "You almost destroyed my life. Why couldn't you have just told me?"

"I was angry at Bea, I wasn't thinking straight." He said "I wanted to take my anger out of anyone and you seemed like the only person but that was before I knew who you were. Before I got to spend time with you and fall in love with you."

Jules held back the rest of her tears and looked at him.
"Were you ever planning on telling me?" She asked, "Because right now it seems like it was just your guilty conscience."

"I was planning on telling you, but I was scared." He said "I didn't know what you'd think of me and I was scared of losing you. You and Ivy are the best thing that has ever happened to me and I don't know what would happen if I lost you two."

"All this time you kept it from me. Something so important it could destroy us." She said, "You say you love me but what's love when it's based on a lie?"

Ceaser held his breath as he shut his eyes.
"Please don't hate me." He pleaded.

He opened his eyes when he felt her hand on the side of his face as she watched him.
"I love you, Ceaser, that's why this hurts so much. And I don't know if I could ever hate you but..."

He waited to feel his heart about to drop.

"I can't marry you." Jules said truthfully as her hand fell from his face "I can't marry someone I don't trust."

"We can work this out, Jules." He said "Please."

"We can." She said "But I don't want to. Not now anyway."

Ceaser let out a breath.
"I will wait for you for as long as it takes for you to forgive me."

Ceaser reached up to touch her face but Jules shifted out of his reach. She didn't want to be around him at that moment. She needed to be alone.

Jules pulled the veil off her head and let it fall to the floor and gave Ceaser a last look before she walked out the door, down the hall and the stairs hearing chatter in the kitchen. It went silent when they saw her standing at the end of the stairs.

She walked to the kitchen and took Ivy from Sofi.

"Jules, what's the matter?" Andy asked

Jules felt her heart get heavier by the second.
"Wedding's off." She said before she grabbed her keys and walked out of his house ignoring the questions they threw at her then drove to her place.

She was not going to think about any of it until Ivy had taken a nap or something. She didn't want Ivy to see her crying.

She wanted to be alone with her baby.

She wanted things to go back to the way it was before Ceaser showed up.

She wanted to be happy again with just Ivy.

But fate, destiny or karma, whatever was out to get her didn't want what she wanted.

Why did life have to be so hard?
She thought.