Back With Baby, Ex Regrets Deeply novel · Chapter 4 of 32

Chapter 4: My Chin

By breakfast my son was on the internet.

Laurel had posted two pictures side by side.

On the left was Teddy on the floor of my mother's studio, running his bus along the red stain, taken from the doorway while I wasn't looking.

On the right was a faded baby picture of Dorian in a sailor suit.

"Can you see it?? Some people come home with more than a tan."

Four hundred people had liked it before I'd finished my coffee.

Under it a woman I'd gone to high school with had written, "omg the CHIN."

Another wrote, "So that's why she ran off to Scotland so fast."

Another wrote, "Poor billionaire lol."

Teddy was in his high chair at the hotel window, feeding a banana to his bus.

"Bus is full," he told me.

"Bus can't be full. Bus doesn't have a stomach."

He considered this and fed it more banana.

I deleted nothing.

I took screenshots of every comment and put my phone face down.

Then I put my son in his stroller and walked him to Odell Marine.

My father's office was on the top floor of an old brick building on the waterfront, with a view of his tugs nosed up against the pier.

There were fewer tugs than I remembered.

His assistant was new.

She didn't know who I was, and she made me wait twenty minutes.

The brass plate on his door still said Gordon Odell, President.

When he finally waved me in, he didn't look at the stroller.

"Sit, sweetheart."

"I'll stand."

He sighed and sat on the edge of his desk.

There was a folder there, already open, with yellow sticky flags where the signatures went.

"I want to say first that Laurel's post was in poor taste," he said. "I told her so."

"Did she take it down?"

"She's young."

"She's twenty-eight."

He held up a hand.

"I didn't ask you here to fight. I asked you here because your mother would have wanted this family together." He tapped the folder. "This is a simple family gift. You sign the house over to Laurel and Dorian, and everybody moves on. They've made a home there, Faye. You live in a castle."

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