Hide The Secrets novel Chapter 9

A moment of silence then I get another question... "What about your fiancé?" Shit I forgot about Stella! Fuck it I'll send her shopping with my card, I don't care how much she spends it is worth it even just for a couple minutes to talk with Grace.

"She won't be present, it will be just you and me in the hotel restaurant because we need to talk" I tell her.

"Well, I won't be able to do tomorrow. Perhaps the day after?"

"Ok, that's fine" I reply happy that she is agreeing to this.

"Bye Matteo" The line goes dead. I climb into bed, my thoughts and dreams consisting of four things. Arloe. Weaver. Grace. Family.

Grace's POV:

Unbelievably I am sat in the hotel restaurant waiting for Matteo. It is 1:05 pm. He is late. Which shows how much he cares about his children. I know that this meeting is about Arloe and Weaver. I fear that he will want to take them away from me but I hope that he will sign the contract I had drafted up yesterday.

Whilst the Kids were at school and I was on my Lunch break I visited a local solicitor and had the papers that would waive Matteo of his Parental rights written up. It meant that he wouldn't have to do anything except forget we even existed so that he could continue with his life whilst we continued with ours.

I am so deep in thought that I don't notice Carlos is stood at my table. He lightly touches my shoulder and says... "Grace, are you ok?" He is so caring and according to the rest of the staff he fancies me and if I didn't have so much going on right now I would invite him for a drink.

Carlos is a couple years older than me, he has blonde hair, brown eyes and very tanned. I remember him telling me that he was an outdoorsman, Loves to surf and to hike. If I didn't have two little ones I would probs ask if I could join him! I once loved doing anything active, from dancing to canoeing but now I am limited to doing what my kids want.

"Yeah, thank you Carlos"

"It's ok, I was wondering... would you... errr" he blushes nervously "would you like to grab a drink after work with me?"

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