Take Two: A second chance romance

Chapter 8: Alexis

"My thoughts were all over the place, so I decided to leave instead of going into the shop. If that wasn’t bad enough, just as I turned to leave, I got sent a message from the same unknown number that had been messaging me for the previous 2 months. Imagine my surprise and my heartbreak when they turned out to be photos of you and Angie together. That was the last straw. I decided that I was just going to leave. Over the last 4 years, I have tried to call and talk to you around fifty times. Even though I originally blocked you, i wanted to let you know about the twins. But every time I called your number, Angie answered. I assumed you had moved on, and you didn’t care about me anymore,” I finished saying.

I looked at Jayden, tears still slowly sliding down my face. Jayden is looking at me, hurt and anger all over his face. Somehow, I know that the anger isn’t at me. Jayden pulls me into a hug and holds me tight.

“f**k Lexi, you should have told me about the messages you received, even if you thought it was a prank. I wish you would have come to me that day and spoken to me, but I do understand that seeing that, after what happened to your parents would have made the pain worse for you. Do you still have the messages and photos? Also, what are the boys’ names and when were they born?” Jay asks.

I know I shouldn’t be taking advantage of the way Jay is comforting me, but it feels good to have someone there to comfort me. Being alone has been hell for me. I think the loneliness has been so much worse than the pain from having my heart broken. I love my boys to the moon and back, but to have another adult there with you to help, would have been good.

“The boys were born on the 31st October, Kai Jayden was born at 3:33pm and Killian Jax was born at 3:38pm. They were born early due to complications with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. I was hospitalized for 2 weeks before I had an emergency C-section. I have called you about ten times in the time I was in hospital before the babies came. I wanted to tell you, and I wanted you to be there. I also called the day they were born as there was a chance I wasn’t going to pull through as the eclampsia had gotten really bad. ICU was on standby in case anything went wrong. I never told my family about trying to contact you. I thought that if they did know that I was trying to contact you, they would be angry at me, which I know is far from the truth. I don’t know why, but yes, I do still have them. I think I kept them to remind myself why I chose to leave. I know it’s stupid, but I can’t explain why I kept them,” I said.

Looking at Jay, I saw the tears and the pain in his eyes. My heart breaks for all the pain I have caused. I grabbed my phone and unlocked it. I opened the message thread from the unknown number and showed him the photos. I then showed him the message from his phone saying to meet him at the coffee shop and the messages that were sent over the last 2 months. I can see that Jay is getting angry at everything I am showing him. I then showed him my call log with his name and the number 54 beside it. I tell Jay I am going to ring it so that he can see that I haven’t lied, and that Angie always answers.

I hit the call on the number, and it started ringing. Jay had his phone in his hand and saw that no call was coming through. Suddenly, the call connects.

“What do you want this time? Haven’t I made it clear enough that you need to leave us alone and piss off? You left him, remember, he found solace and love in me. Now leave us alone.” Angie snaps.

“Angie please, I need to talk to him, it’s an emergency. Please, I need to talk to him.” I said.

“How about NO? Jayden is my fiancé now, not yours.” She says, then hangs up.

“That has been pretty much how she acts every time I try to call. When I was in hospital, I begged her to get you to call me. But she refused, telling me that I needed to let you move on, that it was me that decided to leave. That you were finally happy, and I wasn’t going to wreck that for you” I said.

We talked for a while, and he told me everything from his side and what Angie had done that day at the coffee shop, how the photos came about and how Angie, Lana (Angie’s mom), and his mom Kate had been trying to get him to go out with Angie. Jayden said he shot it down every time. He has no feelings for her and only tolerates her because of family. We worked out that she must have forwarded my number from his phone to hers. So, if I called she could keep me away. I told him how she had threatened me every time to stay away, or she would kill me.

I also told him that Micah found out about the boys a few weeks ago as he turned up at Jax’s when I had just gotten there. Jax had walked out with Killian while Micah was talking to me. He put two and two together. I told Jayden that I had promised Micah that I would let him know about the boys while I was in town for Jessa’s wedding. I showed him photos of the boys from babies up until now. I looked at the time and realized that it looked 7:35pm and I needed to get the boys to bed. I asked Jayden when we got back to the house if he would like to come in and meet the boys? He is over the moon to be able to do that.