Crossroad to Love (Fab Five Series) - By Anna Kristell Page 0,61

door.

Michael answered the door with a tense smile. “I’m glad you agreed to join me, Angela.” He welcomed her into the room.

“Thank you,” she answered nervously.

“Have a seat. Is there anything I can get you?”

“No, thanks.” She began, “Michael, I am so sorry. I know I have hurt you deeply. That was never my intention. You have to know that.”

He ran his fingers through his hair as he sat down in the chair across from her. He looked at her with sadness in his eyes as he began to speak very softly to her.

“I have done nothing for the last twenty-four hours but think about what you told me last night. I was very angry with you at first. I could not believe that you didn’t trust me enough to call me back from my trip when you were in the hospital. I couldn’t believe that you chose not to tell me at all, divorcing me, leading me to believe it was because you wanted to pursue your career. You told me that your work didn’t allow you to start a family, that you had goals and you would never achieve them if you stayed married to me. Do you have any idea how that made me feel, to know that you chose your career over me and a possible family together? Women work and stay married and have babies all the time. So I had to assume you had fallen out of love with me. I was devastated. But I decided not to stand in your way. I always had the hope that we could someday find our way back to each other. That’s why I jumped at the chance to work with you on this project of yours, so that I could see you again, see what kind of a life you had. I wanted to see if you were happy with the life you had chosen or if there was the slightest chance that you might have missed me as much as I had missed you.”

“And then last night, when everything was so perfect between us, when we had admitted, for the first time in all these years, that we were still in love, I thought we actually were getting our act together. And then boom, out of nowhere, you lay something so heavy on me that I couldn’t even stand to be in the same room with you. Do you know how it made me feel to know that you kept something so sacred hidden from me? You didn’t even give me the chance to grieve with you. We could have stayed together, Angie. We could have had a childless marriage or we could have adopted. We could have been happy together all these years instead of miserable apart.”

He simply dropped his head and sobbed as he finished, “I love you, Angie.”

Angie watched as the man she loved cried. The tears he should have cried with her fifteen years ago, had she let him. I am such a fool. I can see that now. But back then, I just couldn’t see it, she thought as she watched him. She walked over to him and put her arms around him. She did not say a word. She just held him in her arms and cried with him.

Finally, she spoke softly, “Let it all out, Michael. These are the tears I deprived you of fifteen years ago. Let it all out, my love.”

They held each other and sobbed together. They cried for their baby. And they cried for the last fifteen wasted years of their lives.

When they had cried all the tears there were to cry, he said softly, “Angie, I never stopped loving you.”

“And I never stopped loving you,” she answered as she cradled him in her arms.

“Why did you do it? I spoke with Jackie this morning. She said you were devastated.”

“I was so messed up at the time. I guess I went into some sort of shock. You were out of town and it just seemed simpler not to tell you. When I lost the baby, it was bad enough, but when the doctor told me I could never have a child, something in me just snapped. I was numb. It was like my whole world was over. I knew how much you wanted children. I did what I thought was best and set you free. I grieved for you and that baby and all the other babies I could never have for years. I