@monstersmuses continued --
Even the dust of hostility from the man she once called her husband stung like a poisonous dagger. Wasn't she over him? Ink on the divorce papers was all dried up, his stuff gone and their memories left in the sands of past...yet, somehow, heart dropped to the stomach when the smooth baritone pointed out the harsh facts. Idea of Seth in the arms of another or a child that is not their own clawed at the tender fibers of the blood pump. Before the dark haired woman could speak up to preserve her dignity, echoes of his last admission widen her eyes, hope breaking the ice of unexplained pain...but died soon after the last words indicated it might be just the matter of time.
" I have the right to know. You do not have to love me, nor even like me, but you will respect me. I am the mother of your child, and what concerns him, concerns me as well. Who you are planning to bring into our son's life therefore, is my business." shielding her feeling behind that explanation was a cheap move, but she was desperate, confused, hurt. Scoffing, she tore her gaze from him, biting her lips. " Is this really what is left from you for me? Rudeness? Hostility? " voice nearly cracking, Layla endured until the last question was voiced.








