Page 42 of Ma Belle Marguerite (Hidden Secrets #1)

Alexander

“ I sabella, please. I don’t have much patience left.” Does she think I’m an idiot? That I wouldn’t figure it out? Has she been playing me this whole fucking time?

How can she keep such a huge secret? Remi and Brielle are my children; they’re my flesh and blood. Thanks to her hiding them from me, I lost out on their whole fucking childhood.

I get that things were complicated, but she should have known that I would have dropped anything and everything for my children. I would do anything for her.

Josh tried to get me to take a moment to breathe and relax before coming up here, but I need to confront her while I’m upset. I can’t have her distracting me and changing the subject.

She needs to feel my anger and know that even though she is the love of my life, I will not stand for lies. I would have told my father to fuck off and ran the second she told me she was pregnant. How did she not know this?

“What are you talking about? I haven’t kept anything from you. Well, maybe I hid a few of my toys from you, but that’s it.” She sounds so convincing!

“Don’t try to play games. I’ll bring you to the basement if needed.

This is a lie that there is no coming back from.

” I don’t want to, but I can’t trust her if she doesn’t admit that the twins are mine to my face—well, I guess to the back of my head, as I can’t look at her right now.

Now is not the time to be weak. I could never actually hurt her but since she doesn’t seem to think I care I can use that to my advantage.

“Can you at least give me a hint of what you think I’m hiding from you?” I hear her splashing behind me as she gets out of the tub.

I must stay strong and not look at her. Those eyes of hers will draw me in and I’ll be done. She is like a siren to me.

“There is only one thing you could ever lie to me about or hide from me that I wouldn’t forgive you for.” Taking a deep breath, I decide to look her in the face. I have always been able to read her like a book, or so I thought. This will be the ultimate test.

“Rex, you’re scaring me. I haven’t kept anything from you on purpose.” Her face is pleading with me to believe her. Her eyes are wide and her head slightly tilted.

“Why wouldn’t you tell me the twins are mine? In all the letters you sent, you always referred to them as your husband’s.” My heart is breaking as I speak these words out loud. “Why would you lie about that? Do you not love me at all?”

Her brows furrow as I speak: “Rex, I didn’t know, I swear. I only realized right before you sent me to your room, and even then, I wasn’t sure.”

“Explain.” She wasn’t sure? I can’t believe she’s still lying to me after all I have done for her the past few days.

“When I was looking at Josh’s computers after you left, I saw on one screen that you have the same blood disorder that Remi has.” She attempts to move closer to me, but I back away. “I thought Josh didn’t see me looking at it, so I left and came up here to think.”

“You expect me to believe you?” I don’t know if I should trust her. She could just be saying what she thinks I want to hear. I can’t handle much more shit right now.

“I know it doesn’t look good, but I swear that I didn’t know.

” She leans against the counter and takes a deep breath.

“We had lots of testing done on Remi. You can look it up. We didn’t understand where he got VWD from.

Nobody in either of our families had it.

I didn’t even know that you had it until today. ”

“I only found out after you left and I went into the hospital with an injury. Not like I could have contacted you to let you know.” I guess she really wouldn’t have known that I had VWD too.

She looks away and walks towards the bedroom like I didn’t just threaten to torture her a minute ago.

“Where the fuck are you going? We aren’t done here.” I cannot believe the audacity of her right now. We aren’t discussing the weather right now.

“I’m getting dressed so we can go see Josh, and he can set you straight. Although I can just go down there like this if you prefer?” This fucking woman will be the death of me.

“I don’t want to have to kill Josh or anyone else that you may run into for looking at you naked. So get dressed, and let’s get going.” I just want to know what is going on. There has been too much uncertainty lately.

It doesn’t take her long to get dressed. She comes out of the closet and rolls her eyes at me. The look in her eyes is as if she is asking for permission to leave the room. I nod towards the door and start walking out without waiting to see if she’s following.

I reach to open the door to my office but stop when I feel her hand on my arm. “Rex, I swear I didn’t keep them from you on purpose. What Josh will be able to show you should prove that.” Her voice is soft and quiet, almost as if she is filled with regret.

I want to believe her, but I don’t want to be made to look like a fool. She takes her hand off my arm and waits for me to go through the door before following me again.

We enter my office to find D taking a nap on the couch in the corner while Josh is talking quietly on the phone with his back to us.

As I approach him, I hear him say that he will call later and to be ready for a long night. I had a hunch that he was seeing someone, but after his last relationship went south, I didn’t think he would be back on the horse so soon.

I need to focus. His love life is not my concern. “Josh, I need you to bring up all of Remi’s medical history now.”

“I already have it ready for you. I looked it up while you were upstairs. I figured you’d want to see it.

” He pulls up a bunch of hospital files on his screens and slides out of the way so I can get a closer look.

There is even a file that shows that Adrien and his parents were tested for VWD as well.

It takes me a bit, but by the time I’m done looking through it all, I’m starting to believe that Bella really didn’t know. They did so many tests on my poor boy.

How did this happen? How would she not know that they’re mine? Looking at them now I can see myself in them?

“Rex, I can see you’re overthinking something. It looks like steam is going to start coming out of your ears if you don’t relax. Here look at this file.” Josh pulls another file up, but this time, it has Bella’s name on it.

Looking closely, I see that this is her obstetrician file. Josh points to something at the beginning of the file that I don’t understand.

“This is a doctor's note stating that the dates didn’t match up. Her last period and the twins birth date don’t match up. But you can see that the doctor shrugs it off as just being due to her having multiples.” He backs away from the computers, and I hear him wake D behind me.

The next thing I hear is D complaining as the door closes. I turn to see Bella sitting at my desk waiting for me to say something. What can I even say? I don’t know where to start.

“Do you have any questions?” She looks almost hesitant to speak.

I can’t believe I ever doubted her. Everything Josh found before we came in here supports what she was saying upstairs. There is no way she could have led him to find specific things. Also, it explains why I felt a weird connection to the twins the first time I saw them.

“I do Ma Belle Marguerite, will you ever forgive me for being such an asshole?” I feel bad for just barging in and treating her like an enemy, I should have known better. “I just assumed the worst. I still don’t know what exactly to think, but I do realize that I handled this wrong.”

Her jaw is on the floor. I have never been one to apologize, let alone admit I’m wrong. She is important to me, though, and I will do whatever it takes.

“Rex, I understand that this is a lot to process. I myself am having a hard time. I will say that if you ever threaten me with the basement again, you will regret it.” She stands up and walks towards me, her eyes meeting mine, jaw set, and a small smile on her face.

It’s hot when she gets like this, but yet again, now is not the time to be thinking about bending her over my desk and using her to rearrange the furniture. I wouldn’t object to fucking her on every surface in this room.

Once she reaches me, I feel her hand cup my balls. “These will be in my toy drawer if you threaten me again. I’ll cut them off in your sleep. Don’t test me Rexy. You of all people should know that I would never do something like that to you intentionally.”

Fuck, now I’m rock-hard, and we need to be doing anything but this. “I’m sorry, Ma Belle .”

“We’re even. I should have come to you with what I suspected, and you shouldn’t have threatened me.

Let’s move on and figure out what we’re going to do about the twins.

” Unfortunately, she lets go of my balls and goes to sit back in the chair.

I was fine with where we were going. I like a bit of pain with my pleasure.

“We obviously need to talk to them at some point about all this.” Her brows are scrunched in concentration.

“They need to know that I’m their father.” I won’t budge on that. “I just don’t want my father to find out.”

“You can’t just throw something like this at them. Think about how hard it is for us to process our feelings. They will have a harder time at their age. We need to be careful how we approach this.”

I guess she has a point, but I want them to know who I am. “Remi will be my heir; he needs to know sooner than later how his life is about to change.” I actually have children! My father can get off my back now. But he can’t know yet, not until all this shit is done with.

“Well, I’m putting my foot down here. We will tell them, but we need to discuss this more ourselves first.” The look on her face shows she isn’t willing to listen to anything I have to say about this.

“They are my children, too; you can’t say that I don’t have an opinion." I will not let that happen. I missed enough as it is.