CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Paisley Redmond P.O.V

I woke up the next morning with somebody constantly ringing the doorbell. I rolled over the bed and picked my phone from the nightstand to check the time. It was 10:30! No wonder all the crying last night wore me out completely.

Gosh! I'll be really late for work today, I thought as got out of the bed.

Good thing I had called up the school earlier this week and informed them that Noah and Ryder won't come for almost another month. If I have to go to London, then I need them at home.

I quickly brushed my teeth and lazily walked down the stairs and went to open the door.

I opened the door only to find none other than Kyle standing there. Freshly shaved and showered, wearing tight grey t-shirt and black jeans with combat boots. He smelled intoxicating because of his mouthwatering colonge and shower gel.

"What?" I snapped at him.

"Good morning to you too, wife!" He said trying to sound funny.

"My morning can never be good when it's your face I see the first thing in the morning." I told him. His face flashed hurt and pain but he quickly masked it.

"Look can we please not fight for just one day?" Kyle asked making me scoff.

"I never knew stating facts is considered as fighting, Mr.Redmond." I told him in a bored tone.

"Okay-okay! I am sorry. I just wanted to discuss things with you about Noah and Ryder's birthday. Can we please?" He asked rather politely this time.

I remained silent and moved aside giving him room to enter.

He walked inside the house and head straight to the living room making himself comfortable on the L-shaped couch as if it is was his own house.

"Wow! I see you made yourself really comfortable, Mr.Redmond." I said my voice dripping with scarcasm while narrowing my eyes at him.

"Well technically I should. This house belongs to my beloved wife, so this house it is mine too. So, why act like a guest in your own house, Mrs.Redmond?" He said wriggling his well defined brows.

My blood boiled on hearing him call me Mrs.Redmond. I wanted to scream at him, but refrained from doing so by reminding myself that I will be Ms.Smith soon.

"Do you want to discuss anything substantial or not?" I asked him seriously.

"Yes. Since, I have missed a couple of Noah and Ryder's birthday's I want to do something for them. What say?" Kyle asked.

"Fair enough. I won't want my children to feel that their father left them on their birthday. So yes, you can celebrate it with them, but try not create too much of a nuisance." I told him.

"Right, and there is one more thing I wanted." Kyle said and I nodded indicating him to continue.

"I want all four of us together the whole day. Take them to where ever they want and do whatever they feel like. But all four of us together!" Kyle said and I could feel the rage boil inside me.

"Never! You spend half the day with them and the other half they will spend with me. When they are with you, do whatever you guys feel like and when they are with me, I'll do the same. And when you comeback to drop the boys, that is time all four of us can be together and cut their cakes. After that they will be with me and you will leave without making a ruckus!" I told him.

"I DO NOT ACCEPT THIS! We all will spend the day together that's where the matter ends!" He said with a hint of anger and agitation in his tone.

"Do not speak in that tone with me ever again, Kyle Redmond! You are not in any position to object anything I say! It's either you listen to what I say or you even lose out on that." I told him in a firm voice that left no room for argument.

"I know I have made mistakes and I am ashamed of them, but I have a say and the right to object if it involves our kids." Kyle said.

"No you don't!" I told him.

"Of course I do, Paisley! Even you know it! Right now your battle with your rational and emotional self is controlling your power of decision making, that's the reason you are reacting to everything I say like this. I don't blame you for it, but I will not tolerate you keeping me out of the matters that concerns Ryder and Noah. Now when I am here, I will exercise all my rights as a father and even you can not stop me!" Kyle declared and I shot him a nasty glare.

"Done?" I asked him in a bored tone.

"Huh?" Kyle asked confused.

"I mean are you done or is there more share of your stupidity left for the day?" I asked.

"What if I say no? And it is not stupidity!" Kyle growled in the end.

"Believe whatever helps you sleep at night and yeah if you aren't done I will be in my room, you can call me when it's over, or better just get out of my house!" I said and turned around to climb up the stairs.

"Wait up Paisy! This conversation is not over, yet!" He called after me and fastened my pace.

"I said wait right there!" Now I could hear thumping of his feet but I continued to walk to my room.

I reached my room and quickly turned around to close the door in order to forbid him from entering my room, but he beat me to it by stucking his foot in between.

He gently pushed me behind and entered the room slamming the door shut behind him.

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Kyle Redmond P.O.V

I gently pushed Paisley inside and entered her room slamming the door shut behind me. Now there is no place she can escape, until she decides to run inside the washroom but I will still stop her.

On entering her room I sucked in a huge breath.

Her wall was full of pictures! From the time of her pregnancy till date, all the pictures were hanging up there.  There were pictures of her, with her swollen belly because of my boys, all three of them together, with her friends back in London, with her mother, grandma and aunt other relatives. There were four pictures in total of Dawson, Paisley and the twins together. Both of them were holding Noah and Ryder in their arms and the others were random. But one thing in common was they all were smiling brightly! It seemed as they were one happy family. Seeing this angry tears pricked my eyes. It could have been me in place of him, if I wouldn't have done that inhuman deed.

But things will always comeback to those what if's!

I ignored the tightening in my chest and turned to Paisley, I saw her observing eyes on me due to the fact that I was looking at the pictures intently.

"How dare you enter my room without my permission, huh?" She said her eyes turning into slits.

"I don't not need anyone's permission to enter my wife's room!" I told her swallowing the lump in my throat.

"Stop mentioning the dreadful fact that I am your wife time and again, Kyle! I won't be for long, so better come in terms with it. The sooner the better!" Paisley said and I felt the anger building up inside me.

"Believe whatever you have to in the end, only that will happen what I want." I told Paisley clenching my fists hard.

"Again! Again there is that selfish attitude of yours! Do you realise that you don't own people and you have no control over the way they feel? The universe does not revolve around you, Kyle! Your choices and wants have lead to disasters, this time it won't happen because I am incharge of the situation. Mark my words!" She said glaring at me.

"What is selfish about wanting to live with your wife and kids, huh, Paisley?" I asked her.

"Christ! I do not want to live with you, Kyle. After all you have done to me, I just can't. I am a human being, I have feelings too! After the hell you have put me through, you cannot expect me to comeback to you. You may have not had any regards to my feelings in the past but atleast show some of it now! Show some regard to me atleast as a mother. As a mother of your children!" She said calmly not breaking our eye contact.

"I did regard your feelings in the past and still do, not only as a mother but also as a wife! The point is I will not stop until I get what I want. I have told you this ample number of times before and I am telling you this again, that I do love you and respect your feelings. You are coming back to London with the kids. Mark my words!" I told Paisley.

"What kind of a jackass are you!?" Paisley asked with agitation.

"As if you don't know, baby." I told her smirking.

I walked close to her not with the intention of touching her but just to intimidate her. I know, I may sound like a bastard to be doing this, but I had to.

"Walking slowly close to me does not intimidate me anymore!" She said smirking folding her arms over her chest.

"Oh so little wife is....." I was about to say something but my kids decided to enter and interrupt us once again.

"Daddy! Dad!" They exclaimed.

"Hey!" I greeted them with a full blown smile.

"I mwade something for you daddy!" Noah said.

"Even I did daddy!" Ryder chirped after Noah.

"Oh that's amazing! What is it boys?" I asked them curious about what they had made.

"We'll go get it!" Ryder said and they fled out of the room.

"Do you any idea what is it, Paisy?" I asked her. She just kept mum in response and acted as if she didn't hear what I said.

"Look daddy!" Noah said as he and Ryder ran upto me with papers.

I crouched down to their level to see what they had made.

I took both the drawings in my hand and immediately felt an unbareable tightening in my chest, I look at Paisely and even she had the same look.

"That's fabulous my little artists! I am so proud of you both!" I told them patting their backs gently.

"We mwade it for you and mommy as a gifwt daddy!" Noah said smiling.

"Pick one daddy!" Ryder said.

"What about mommy? Which one does she want?" I asked them. The boys immediately went to Paisley and asked her.

"Which one do you want mom?" Ryder asked her.

"Anyone baby. Which ever you and Noah feel like, give it to mommy." She said removing the hair falling in his eyes.

"This one!" Noah said handing her one of them.

"And this one for daddy!" Ryder said coming to me and giving the another one.

"Come let's sit down!" Noah said.

Me, Paisy and Ryder started to move out of the room when Noah demanded that we all should go and sit in his and Ryder's room because he wanted show their room to me. We all went to their room and sat down on the carpet.

After I praised them about their neatly kept room I brought up the topic of their birthday infront of Paisley purposely.

"So little men, your birthday is five days away. What do you both want to do?" I asked them looking at Paisely from the corner of my eye.

"No school!" They yelled in unision.

"You both are not going these days anyways, apart from that what do you both want?" I said chuckling.

"I want a big cwake!" Ryder said.

"I want to spend the day with you and mommy!" Noah voiced out looking hopeful.

"Of course! Ask mommy." I said a small smile playing on my lips. It's their birthday wish I am sure she won't refuse.

"Can we mommy?" Ryder asked.

"Plewse mommy, can we?" Noah asked.

She tried to doge the question at first giving them unclear answers but I beat her to it.

"Don't you think we should grant them their birthday wish, sweetheart?" I asked or more like ordered her while smirking.

"Yes mommy plewse!" "Pretty plewse mommy!" They both pleaded giving her their puppy dog faces.

"Fine!" She said after taking a really long breath.

"Yipeee!" They both cheered and tackled both of us in a hug.

Our first ever family hug! Sounds corny, but I don't give a f*ck!

I smiled at the thought and kissed the three of their's foreheads. I felt Paisley stiffen at my action, but in that moment it didn't matter.

After breaking our hug we all went downstairs and had breakfast. Paisley decided to take an off because the kids were presistent.

After a scrumptious breakfast made by my wife somebody rang her doorbell. I went to check who it was as Paisley was still eating.

On opening the door, a wave of guilt and shame passed through me and hit me like a thousand bricks.

It was Paisley's mom standing on the door. A woman who had always treated me like her own son.

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That's what's Paisley's room looks like.

Kyle is using his children as a catalyst to get back Paisley. The next chapter will focus on the encounter between Paisley's mom (Grace Evans) and Kyle.

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