Too Late To Love Me I Already Left With His Twins (Lydia and Dave) novel Chapter 19

A promise

Lydia POV

I almost didn’t press it.

Not because I didn’t need him.

But because something in me already knew what this would feel like if it went badly.

Still, fever makes fools of all of us.

So I called.

It rang once.

Twice.

Three times.

Then he picked up.

“Lydia.”

Just my name.

Flat. Distracted. Like he had answered out of inconvenience rather than concern.

And because my body clearly hated me, that one word almost made me cry.

Not because it was kind.

But because for one stupid second, it sounded like possibility.

I swallowed hard and tried to sit up straighter against the tub.

“Hi,” I said, and even to my own ears, I sounded awful.

There was a short pause on the line.

Then, finally, his voice shifted just slightly.

“What happened?”

That did it.

That tiny change.

That almost-concern.

That almost-human reaction.

And just like that, my chest tightened with the kind of hope that usually ends in embarrassment.

“I think I’m sick,” I said quietly. “I’ve been throwing up and I-

A woman laughed in the background.

My whole body went still.

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Then I heard her voice.

Bright. Familiar. Uninvited.

Cyn.

“Oh my God,” she said somewhere near the phone. “Is that your wife again?”

Silence. 1

Then rustling.

Then her voice came closer, clearer, sharper.

“Hello?”

I didn’t answer.

My grip tightened around the phone.

“Hello?” she repeated, now with that smooth false sweetness women like her wore like perfume. “He’s busy.”

My mouth went dry.

I could hear movement in the background.

Could hear voices.

Could hear that he had not taken the phone back. 1

Did not say, Give me that.

Did not say, Cyn.

Did not say anything.

I finally found my voice.

Barely.

“I called my husband.”

A beat.

Then she laughed softly.

“Yes,” she said. “And he’s busy.” 2

Click.

The line went dead.

I stared at the screen.

Call ended.

For a few seconds, I didn’t move.

Didn’t blink.

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Didn’t even think.

Must sat there on the bathroom floor with the phone in my hand and that one stupid, humiliating fact sitting like a stone in my chest.

I had called. I

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