Chapter 96

KADE’S POV While my head was ringing with the new information that had exploded on me like a grenade, the twins were still talking. I struggled to focus and hear the rest of their conversations. “…he was mean to her and wouldn’t let her come home with us,” Luca was saying. “Yeah, and he yelled at us,” Mateo added, shaking his head. The twins shared a look. “We don’t like him,” they declared. The man leaned in and stroked Matteo’s head. “He’s still your father, you know. Whatever your sentiments about him are, that won’t change.” Matteo shook his head. “We don’t want him as a daddy. We only want mommy.” Something pierced my heart like an iron rod. They didn’t like me. I was their father, and they didn’t like me. They didn’t want me. Just like their mother had done, the twins had rejected me. I moved away from the door, unable to look at them anymore—my children. Who wanted nothing to do with me. Because I’d been mean and I’d upset their mother. Their mother…who kept them from me. Who ne