shit. Why the fuck did you tell the doctors I was your emergency contact?”
“Because I wanted to see you. You won’t answer my calls but I figured if you knew I was in the hospital you would come.” She pressed back against the head of the bed when I growled deep in my throat. “I still love you Daniel, and I want you back. You loved me once too, and that doesn’t just go away.”
“Yeah it does, Lynn. You ripped my heart out and splashed it all across the tabloids for months.” I walked to the head of the bed and looked down at the woman who at one time was my everything. I leaned in real close so she would be sure and hear every word. “I do not have any feelings for you what so ever Lynn. You are an obligation that I have now fulfilled. I will make sure someone comes and stays with you but outside of that you are nothing to me. Do not try to contact me again, especially in this way. I will not come again.” I stood up and walked to the door, pulling up her mother’s phone number. I pulled the door open but before I left for good I turned around one last time.
“I have moved on, Lynn. She is a hundred times the woman you are or ever will be. She heals instead of destroying. Get yourself up and move on with your life, make it better for your sake and for your daughters. But it will have to be done without me because my heart is somewhere else.” I saw the tears roll down her cheeks but I pulled the door closed. I made the necessary calls to get someone to come be with her and then started back to the airport. As I climbed in the cab my phone rang again, it was my agent.
“Hey Robert, what’s up?”
“I need you down here right now, that project we were looking at, the one with Michael Douglass, you were just offered the part but we need to nail this down now. Where are you?” I sighed, before telling the cabbie to change directions. Getting back to Paris was apparently not going to be as easy as I hoped.
Chapter Five
(Kathryn)
Life settled into a steady routine. I would walk the kids to Cora’s every morning and we would eat pastries at the café across the street. Most days I stayed with Lily, making sure everything was going well. She was learning quite a bit from Cora about the fashion design side of modeling, something she has always been interested in but most of the designers didn’t have the time or the patience to listen to all her questions and to answer each one. Cora was amazing. She took Lily under her wing, even incorporating a few of Lily’s ideas into her newest designs. She was enjoying having Americans around her again, living so long in Paris and Ireland, she didn’t get back to her native country very often. Tyler would do as asked, going with the flow as usual.
In the evenings we would come together as a family and make dinner, then we would either go for walks along the River Seine, hit the gym, go to the movies, or just hang out at the townhouse if there wasn’t a modeling event. Lily would usually hit her room on those quiet nights, listening to music and working on her assignments from her tutor. She was happy to work at a normal pace, but would still graduate a few months ahead of her peers. She was already talking to Cora about taking fashion classes at NYU and then an internship with her.
Tyler would usually hit the books as well even though he had already graduated, he didn’t seem to be able to stop the habit of studying since he had spent the last six years working his ass off to get his engineering degree on his timetable, taking advanced placement classes all the way through high school, and since he used a tutor he was able to fly through most of the easy work, or easy for him. Calculus wasn’t a simple topic for me, but it seemed to be nothing to him.
Every Sunday Cora and Joey would bring their kids over and we would have a Sunday dinner just like what I had
“Because I wanted to see you. You won’t answer my calls but I figured if you knew I was in the hospital you would come.” She pressed back against the head of the bed when I growled deep in my throat. “I still love you Daniel, and I want you back. You loved me once too, and that doesn’t just go away.”
“Yeah it does, Lynn. You ripped my heart out and splashed it all across the tabloids for months.” I walked to the head of the bed and looked down at the woman who at one time was my everything. I leaned in real close so she would be sure and hear every word. “I do not have any feelings for you what so ever Lynn. You are an obligation that I have now fulfilled. I will make sure someone comes and stays with you but outside of that you are nothing to me. Do not try to contact me again, especially in this way. I will not come again.” I stood up and walked to the door, pulling up her mother’s phone number. I pulled the door open but before I left for good I turned around one last time.
“I have moved on, Lynn. She is a hundred times the woman you are or ever will be. She heals instead of destroying. Get yourself up and move on with your life, make it better for your sake and for your daughters. But it will have to be done without me because my heart is somewhere else.” I saw the tears roll down her cheeks but I pulled the door closed. I made the necessary calls to get someone to come be with her and then started back to the airport. As I climbed in the cab my phone rang again, it was my agent.
“Hey Robert, what’s up?”
“I need you down here right now, that project we were looking at, the one with Michael Douglass, you were just offered the part but we need to nail this down now. Where are you?” I sighed, before telling the cabbie to change directions. Getting back to Paris was apparently not going to be as easy as I hoped.
Chapter Five
(Kathryn)
Life settled into a steady routine. I would walk the kids to Cora’s every morning and we would eat pastries at the café across the street. Most days I stayed with Lily, making sure everything was going well. She was learning quite a bit from Cora about the fashion design side of modeling, something she has always been interested in but most of the designers didn’t have the time or the patience to listen to all her questions and to answer each one. Cora was amazing. She took Lily under her wing, even incorporating a few of Lily’s ideas into her newest designs. She was enjoying having Americans around her again, living so long in Paris and Ireland, she didn’t get back to her native country very often. Tyler would do as asked, going with the flow as usual.
In the evenings we would come together as a family and make dinner, then we would either go for walks along the River Seine, hit the gym, go to the movies, or just hang out at the townhouse if there wasn’t a modeling event. Lily would usually hit her room on those quiet nights, listening to music and working on her assignments from her tutor. She was happy to work at a normal pace, but would still graduate a few months ahead of her peers. She was already talking to Cora about taking fashion classes at NYU and then an internship with her.
Tyler would usually hit the books as well even though he had already graduated, he didn’t seem to be able to stop the habit of studying since he had spent the last six years working his ass off to get his engineering degree on his timetable, taking advanced placement classes all the way through high school, and since he used a tutor he was able to fly through most of the easy work, or easy for him. Calculus wasn’t a simple topic for me, but it seemed to be nothing to him.
Every Sunday Cora and Joey would bring their kids over and we would have a Sunday dinner just like what I had
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