Free A Broken Beautiful Beginning by Sophie Summers

smile spreads then he leans down and gently kisses my nose.
    I smile.
    He bends down to whisper in my ear. The house is empty so I’m not sure why we feel the need to whisper, but we do.
    “I love you Harlz.” He nuzzles my neck still not moving his body out of mine.
    I wrap my arms around his torso and squeeze. “I Love you too.” I whisper.
    He carries me to the bathroom and I shower again, this time Caleb ’s right there with me, never leaving my side.
    We make love again twice more through the night and I w ake up to him between my legs.
    Let’s just say...best-morning-ever!
    He pours me a bubble bath in the morning and we spend the rest of the day lying in each other’s arms talking about what each of us missed out on these past couple years.
    He tells me a lot but I can’t help but feel that there’s something he isn’t sharing.

Chapter 4

    “Mommy?” Willow asks. I turn from where I’m kneeled on her bedroom floor helping her put all her toys in her little trunk.
    “Yes baby?” I continue putting away the last of the toys.
    She hesitates a moment, “Why did Jacey have to say goodbye? Where’s he going? I’m going to see him again right?” she doesn’t look at me while saying this instead she moves her little motorbike around on the floor.
    My body tenses, afraid of the answer to the question I’m about to ask.
    “ Willow, when did you see Jace?”
    She looks up from her toys, “When I went to Gramps lake house. Jace was there. He said he has to go away for a long time but he wanted me to know that he loves me very much.”
    “What?” I hear Caleb’s stiff voice from the doorway. My head whips around to see his livid face.
    “Baby, why don’t you go and see what Brent’s up to downstairs?” I tell Willow knowing that her daddy is about to blow a gasket and I don’t want his anger to frighten her.
    She quickly runs out of the room with her toy in hand. I stand up and look at him.
    I put both hands up. “I know , okay. I’m going to speak to them about this. They know I don’t want her around him.”
    He nods his head avoiding my eyes, I can tell he’s trying to watch his words and restrain himself. All he says is, “You make sure you do that. I’ll deal with him.”
    Then he turns and walks out the room.
    I trail close behind full of confusion.
    “What do you mean , y ou’ll deal with him? What are you going to do? You’re not going near him Caleb!” I close our bedroom door behind me. Caleb looks though his drawers till he finds a shirt, slamming the drawers closed harshly.
    “What? ” he raises an eyebrow. “Don’t want me to fuck up lover boy?” he says sarcastically. I freeze at his childish behaviour and look up at him with a frown. I don’t know what crawled up his ass all of a sudden.
    “I said I’ll fix it.” I repeat deadpan.
    “No Harley. I don’t know what your issue is with him but he fucked up big time. Why does he always get off lightly? Brent told me all the shit he put you through over the years, yet you always allowed that unstable bastard back in and near our daughter. Why is that?” he shouts a little louder watching the door as he does making sure Willow doesn’t come in.
    His questio ns leave me at a loss for words. I don’t even know how to respond to that. How do I defend myself when I don’t even have the answers? I know he’s right and that’s the problem. So I don’t respond and he takes this as a cue to continue.
    “ Don’t expect me to go easy on him either. He fucked up and he needs to know that I’m with you now. You and Willow are mine. Got it? Mine . He’s not going to get the opportunity to sweep in and take you from me again. I watched him carry you away four years ago and I won’t allow it to happen again. I was weak then, I wouldn’t have stood a chance against him… but now? Well shits changed... I’m not so useless and I’m going to make sure he knows it.” He grabs his cell phone and heads for the door without