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Chapter Three
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AIDEN
I spent a lot of ti with Cecile I also spent a lot of ti Holly that she had called Ulti heavy onto buy that it was all about work for , but she wasn’t stupid
I did meet with Cecile on the condition that it was in a public place and only if she brought Mark He ho this was about Fear of being told I couldn’t see hi I wouldn’t risk upsetting Holly for any less than that Cecile and I arranged to meet at the zoo outside of the city I couldn’t really afford to spend the ti Mark had truly been the worst thing that had ever happened to ift like this; the chance to get re-acquainted with the boy I had thought was my son
I nervously walked up towards the front gates of the zoo, and I saw the there…Cecile and Mark They hadn’t seen ave me an opportunity to observe them both Cecile was still as beautiful as ever She had taken , silky dark hair and huge dark blue eyes She knew she was beautiful, and she knew the effect her beauty had on people She also kne to use that to get what she wanted It used to work for aer I didn’t miss her at all, and unless it had to do with Mark, I rarely thought of her anymore I was overwhelmed by my love for Holly I felt her all the way to one with Cecile Our love was alwaysonly skin deep, like Cecile’s beauty
The little boy standing next to her, however, was a different story He had a spray of freckles across his perfect little nose and an unrulydown over his eyes I didn’t have to see theotten his mother’s eyes and he was as beautiful as she was I remember when he was tiny, that any place we ever took him, people would stop and tell us what a beautiful baby he was I’d always been so proud, because at that ti him
He caughtacross the wide parking lot I saw hi on his mother’s hand and point at me I wondered how he kneas me I saw Cecile look up and smile and wave and when I reached them, she threw her arms around my shoulders and embraced s that she had to destroy our e and take away my son
“Thank you so ed her back off of me and looked down at Mark
“Hello there,” I said to him
He looked at nition in them He looked so different from the last time I saw him that, had I passed him on the street, I wouldn’t have known it was him That broke my heart Cecile tried to push him out from behind her and said, “Mark, talk to him”
“It’s okay; he hasn’t seentime Let’s let him ease into it”
I paid their adht up to hi?”
“I like the giraffes,” he said
“Cool! Giraffes are my favorite too!” I told him
“Can we feed them?” he asked
“I don’t know, let’s go find out” I picked hi hiht I could literally feelup in ot Cecile was there
“You two look really good together” Hearing her say that ether I wasn’t going to let her ruin this tih I didn’t knohen or if I’d ever be able to see hiain I still needed to talk to Holly about it and I ell aware now of how fickle Cecile could be I ignored her and concentrated on Mark
We fed the giraffes long shoots of leaves the zookeepers gave us and Cecile insisted that he and I pose for a photo in front of them We went to see the sea lion exhibit next and by that tihe saw around him I loved how inquisitive he was He asked questions thatin his head when I answered them