The Conspiracy of Baby-Switching novel Chapter 107

"The children are on school holidays as of tomorrow, and I have too much on next week. Until this internet is sorted, I can't work from here. I'll get a technician out next week."

"Me and the kids will just wait here until you get back."

"I'm not going without you!" he bellows at the top of his voice.

"But..."

"But nothing," he snaps. "I cannot do what I have to do without the appropriate equipment...and you are going to support me."

Mark walks through the back door. "Hey." He sees Gabriel's furious face.

"What's up?"

"We leave for New York in the morning."

The kids stare out of the back windows in awe as the car pulls onto the tarmac.

Gabriel is dressed in his navy blue suit, a crisp white shirt and tie.

Looking every bit as New York CEO as they come.

Mark is in the front seat, and there's another car of men behind us.

Nerves dance deep in the pit of my stomach.

I'm excited to go to New York, but deep down, I have a bad feeling about this.

It's just two weeks, what could possibly go wrong in two weeks?

The car comes to a halt. Gabriel gets out and opens the door for us. The kids and I climb out and are suddenly stunned to silence.

A sleek jet sits on the tarmac, it has gold detailing around the windows and on the nose. It's so exotic and luxurious looking that I've never seen one like it before.

Not even in magazines...

The scared kids shuffle to stand behind my and Gabriel's legs.

Gabriel kisses the back of my hand and gives me a slow, sexy smile.

"Home time, my love."

Gabriel

Dominic and lucia stand behind my legs, scared of the jet, and I smile down at them. "Come." I hold my hand out and Lucia takes it, and to my surprise, Dominic takes the other one.

He's holding my hand.

"You get drinks and everything," Lucia whispers, wide-eyed. "What even is this place?"

I chuckle and glance over to see Violet once again looking like she just swallowed a fly.

I take her hand and hold it in mine.

What's wrong?

"We'll have two glasses of Mo?t and two glasses of fizzy drink please?" "Fizzy drink?" Nala frowns.

"Sprite," I correct myself.

Violet smiles at me calling it fizzy drink, and I do too. The children bounce in their seats with excitement. This is a special day. Bringing my children and Violet home to New York means a lot to me.

My eyes roam over Vee's beautiful face and a sense of calm falls over me, never have I been so under the spell of a woman before. Her calm resolve and inner strength. The way she loves our children, the way she makes me feel. It's as if all my pent-up feelings for her over the years have boiled over and I no longer have any control over them.

I am irrevocably hers.

There's not a doubt in my mind now that she is the love of my life. She has always been the love of my life, long before I even realized it.

My aim is to convince her to move to New York so that we are never apart. The more I settle into my new role as a father, the more I realize that I can't be without them for four days every week.