Let Me Love You Again
Chapter 108

Nate

Another day another race.

Also that day I had completely locked myself in the conference room since the next day we will have a meeting with the lawyers of the client of Fisher who had paid attention to the note signature of Seattle. We had worked hard, studying every single step of the case so that we could reach an agreement without actually ending up in court.

I stretched myself in the chair and looked at the clock on the phone, it was six o’clock in the afternoon and I was dead tired.

“I think it’s time to close everything,” I said, closing the files in front of me.

“Thank God, I didn’t think it was ever going to come to that,” Lopez yelled and immediately stood up.

“It looks like you were counting the seconds,” I said, standing up.

“Shut up, Dare. Dinner and club tonight?” Zeke asked hopefully.

“I pass,” I said, putting the documents in the suitcase of laptop.

“My God, you’ve become a nanny, it doesn’t hurt to get out,” Zeke commented.

“I do not care. I prefer to go to my room and rest, I take my work seriously,” I answered as I walked to the conference room door.

I opened it and went out on the empty floor of the palace.

“Is that your final answer?” Lopez asked.

I swirled my eyes and I did it with my finger and then closed the sliding door behind me with a puff. I picked up the phone and sent a message to Maya, immediately she replied by sending me a picture of Axel eating, with his face completely dirty with chocolate that was also smeared on his hair.

Do you know you’re gonna have to clean up that mess?

I commented on them.

Actually, I was going to wait for some brave knight to do it for me.

Are you waiting for someone, Mrs Dare?

Only my own king.

Laugh at her answers.

Are you flirting with me?

I asked her and she immediately sent me a picture of her in which she lowered the shirt on the front showing me the red lace bra from which the firm and swollen breasts sprouted.

Temptress.

I wrote to her immediately, feeling my whole body tremble. God, I missed my beautiful woman.

Just for you.

She answered by adding a heart.

“Dare!” she heard me call as I was going to the elevator.

I turned around and Becka “Hey,” I said, sticking my phone in my pocket.

“You stormed off last night, and I couldn’t meet you today,” she said as she put her designer bag on her shoulder.

“We were very busy,” I answered as I pressed the elevator call button.

“Are you done?” she asked and the elevator doors opened. We both went in and I took the ground floor.

“Yes. We have everything ready for tomorrow’s meeting with lawyers,” I answered.

“That means you have time for dinner tonight,” he said, not a question.

I shook my head, “I’m dead tired, I’d rather go back to the hotel and take a shower,” I answered.

Becka seemed disappointed, but I didn’t care.

“Not even for dinner in your hotel restaurant?” she asked hopefully.

“I am sorry but I am too tired, I prefer to be rested for tomorrow”.

Becka sighed and moved her hair behind her ears, “Do you have a son?” she suddenly said.

I looked at her with a frown.

“Last night when you answered the phone I heard the voice of a child calling you dad,” she said.

I remembered that the night before I met her at the hotel bar and then I answered the phone with Axel, I completely forgot I met her the night before.

I nodded and a smile appeared on my face.

“How old is he?” Becka asked.

“One year, his name is Axel,” I said, and the elevator doors opened.

“Axel, that’s a nice name,” she said as we walked out to the front desk of the building.

“Can I see a picture?” she asked me gently.

I unlocked the phone and went to the gallery, avoiding the sexy photos Maya sent me, found one of Axel’s, and I showed her. Becka grabbed my phone and looked at Axel’s picture.

“He’s a very beautiful child,” she said, “Can I tell you something?” I nodded, “Will you promise not to offend me?” I nodded again, “It looks nothing like you, not even your eyes, although they seem to have the same shade. With that I’m not implying anything, I just expected to see a mini-you,” she quickly said.

I took her phone out of her hand and put it back in my pocket.

“He’s Maya’s son,” I sighed.

I didn’t like calling Axel Maya’s son, because he wasn’t just her son, Axel was my son, I didn’t care about anyone else.

“Maya?” she asked doubtfully.

“My wife,” I said.

Becka frowned and we went out onto the street “I still don’t understand” she admitted.

I sighed, “When Maya and I found each other, she already had Axel, he was only a few months old,” I said as we walked along the sidewalk.

“Find yourself? Wait, Maya? Your sister’s friend?” she asked.

“Exactly”

“Wow. So she had a son a few months old?”

I nodded, “Long story and I’m too tired to tell it,” I said, shrugging.

“I didn’t think you were such a family man, I always imagined you as a fool until you were 50,” she said.

“I imagined myself like this too until I met Maya, then everything changed,” I said.

Becka went to answer, but my phone rang, I picked it up and saw that Maya was calling me.

“Sorry I have to go,” I said without looking at her and then turned to a taxi as I answered “Mon amour,” I said answering.

“Hey,” she said, and I heard Axel screaming in the background.

“What’s going on?” I asked worried as I got into the cab.

“Nothing Axel decided to do tantrums and does not want to wash,” she replied sighing.

“Why?”

“Because he decided he wants to take a bath with you and he’s all covered in chocolate and he keeps running around the house,” Maya sobbed.

“Why are you crying?” I asked.

“Because he dropped my sandwich on the floor,” she said desperately.

I did my best not to burst out laughing at her desperate voice, as if the world had ended because she had dropped her sandwich on the floor, and in a way, it was.

“Do you want me to talk to him?”

“He can’t just listen to you, he has to listen to me. I’m his mother,” she said with a cracked voice.

This time I laughed without being able to control myself.

“Are you f*****g with me, Dare?” Maya hissed on the phone and I immediately snapped on alert.