Page 16 of Grumpy Ex's Secret Baby

I grabbed my clothes and pulled them on. The sex was good. It had relieved some of the tension between us, but there was still more that we needed to talk about. I waited until we were dressed and outside, walking back toward her house.

“Where does this leave us?” I asked, looking at her as we stood outside her home. “Are you going to think about letting me meet her?”

“I need some time to think about this, and you need to make some serious changes in your life. Are you even ready to have a child in your home? Do you know what being a parent is going to take?”

“Haley.”

“Tyson, please, just give me time to think and start making your life look like you actually want a child in it. Then I’ll consider introducing you to her.”

I sighed as she spun and jogged to her front door, disappearing inside before she gave me another chance to try and change her mind.

I could respect what she was saying about changing my life. Drew would be taking over the entertainment side of the company, and I would be removing myself from the spotlight. I would have to find somewhere to settle down, but I had a rental right now. There was a spare bedroom to that I could add a toddler bed until I found my own place.

You’re getting ahead of yourself. You haven’t even been allowed to meet Trinity yet.

It didn’t matter. I would get a room ready for her if Haley ever let her come over.

As I walked away from her house, I pulled out my phone and called Clarke.

“Already calling?” Clarke said, a teasing tone in his voice. “I thought you would have lasted longer before Haley sent you running with your tail between your legs.”

“I’m not running anywhere. I want my family back.” I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. “You don’t happen to know the name of a good family lawyer, do you?”

“You think that’s necessary?”

I looked over my shoulder, looking at Haley’s house. “I think it might be.”

7

HALEY

BretlookedupasI entered the house, his smile dropping to a frown. He walked to the door and looked out before coming back in.

“He’s gone?”

“For now,” I said, raising an eyebrow when his gaze fixed on where my shirt hung off my shoulder. “What?”

“You did more than just talk, didn’t you?” he said, smirking as he nodded at my shoulder. “You might want to go change before Trinity starts asking questions.”

I stuck my tongue out at him, my cheeks burning as I dashed to my bedroom and got changed. When I came back out, Bret had put on Trinity’s favorite movie and was watching her from the kitchen as he got some food ready.

“She didn’t have lunch yet?”

“Oh, she did,” Bret said, keeping his voice low. “But this is for you since I figured you’ve worked yourself up an appetite.”

My cheeks flamed as I shook my head. “You’re awful. You know that?”

“Yeah, okay. Are you going to start telling me that nothing happened between you two? Because I can see that post-sex glow. I miss having that post-sex glow.”

“What happened to that guy you were seeing?”

Bret sighed and flipped over the grilled cheese he was making. “He was deeply closeted, which I could understand in a town this small and awful. It was the having a wife part that I just couldn’t look past.”

I snorted at his dramatic wave of the spatula. “You have to be the unluckiest person I have ever met.”

“Says the woman that just hooked up with the man she’s been in love with since high school.”

He grabbed a plate and put on the grilled cheese, chuckling when I dug into it right away. He hadn’t been wrong about working up an appetite. I was starving after Tyson gave me the best sex of my life again.

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