Tangled Hearts - The Alpha's Baby Mama-Chapter 147: I will fake it until I make it...

Selene POV

The gentle rays of dawn crept through the curtains, splashing softly on my face as I stretched like a lazy cat. This was the best sleep I’ve had in a long time. My eyelids fluttered gradually rousing me from the depths of sleep. I noticed something was looming over me; so I closed my eyes and blinked severally to find Noah’s face above mine.

I looked at him dazedly for a minute trying to get my bearings as the memories of the previous night came flooding to me in a rush. A hiss escaped my lips as I pushed myself into a sitting position, and a scowl settled on my face. He took a step backwards, gazing at me blankly.

I can’t believe he had the guts to still come to me so early after what he did last night and he was not making any attempt to apologize. "What do you want now?" I growled, raising my right hand to smoothen my dishevelled hair only to discover that my hand was tied to something – no, someone. Surprised, I followed the cord made out of clothes noticing for the first time that Lucius was in one corner of the room leaning against the wall.

Wait! My gaze swept around the room which was much smaller than mine and didn’t resemble my room in any way. This was not my room. I closed my eyes and with my free hand massaged my temples, trying to remember where I was and why Lucius was in the same room with me. When I opened my eyes, my gaze landed on a sleeping Xavier lying beside me on the other side of the bed.

Between us was a mountain of pillows, clearly intended to maintain separation. My gaze returned to Lucius whose eyes were glinting with amusement as he watched me. He was enjoying this. Last night, after I left Noah’s room, I went straight to the girls and they were asleep already. Brenna told me Xavier left a few moments ago and they were waiting for me. Without thinking, I just rushed down to Xavier’s room but he was showering at the time.

That was all I could recollect. I didn’t know how the pillow forte came about or if we had any other conversation in that line. But I liked how Xavier had taken measures to prevent any mistakes still making sure we had a connection. I looked towards him again noticing that he no longer had that pale, sick face again. At least it worked.

"It’s morning," Noah stated flatly, his tone clipped. "Time for you to go back to your room. You should have left earlier... do you know how bad it will look if people should see you coming out of his room?"

I scoffed at the implication of his words detecting jealousy and hurt laced in his tone. Why hadn’t he thought of all these things when he was frolicking around with Brooke? The double standards!

"You didn’t have to come to get me," I retorted without remorse nodding towards the pillows and Lucius who was still quiet at the corner of the room. "As you can see, nothing happened. Xavier took extra care to make sure we did not put ideas intoanyone’ss head. Not only did he build this forte, he also had his Beta with us in the room for accountability, knowing how suspicious you’ve become of us when clearly, we do not do anything,".

My eyes bored accusingly into Noah’s, holding his gaze without flinching. I thought it would be easy for me to forget about him cheating on me with Brooke but up until this moment, my heart is still bitter whenever I think about it.

"Xavier displayed far more sense and restraint than you managed last night. He didn’t give room for excuses especially as he had ample opportunity," I finished, my chest heaving with anger.

Hoping he would talk back at me or something so it would give me enough ground to fight, his jaw clenched but he said nothing and continued to watch me. After a few seconds, he straightened and tucked back his hand behind his back which he had stretched towards me to help me out of the bed.

"The appointment with the therapist is by 9 am, you just have only an hour to dress and...".

"The counselling appointment is set for 9 AM, is it not?" I interrupted him mid-sentence "I already knew that and I know I have just an hour or less to prepare myself and meet you in whatever room you’ve chosen for it to be done,".

I pulled my wrist free of its binding. I rose from the bed and smoothened the wrinkles from my rumpled clothes. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Noah watching me wordlessly for a long moment before giving a terse nod.

"The therapy room is the last door at the end of the corridor adjoining my office suite," he said stiffly. "I will see you there shortly,".

With that, he turned on his heel and departed leaving us to the tension in the room.

I blew out a weary sigh, running my fingers through my tangled hair. So much for being intentional about fixing our marriage. I wouldn’t have been cold to him but for his rash actions last night which made me see him in another light and have shattered the little trust between us.

My eyes fell on the clock in the room and at this rate, I had less than an hour left for me. Pushing stray thoughts away, I bent down to pick the things I had come with to Xavier’s room. I couldn’t allow myself to be thrown off balance before the counselling session. I would need to be fully present and focused if there were to be any hope of salvaging this situation. Which wasn’t my goal by the way...

My gaze fell momentarily upon Xavier still deep in sleep. A fleeting sense of gratitude washed over me that at least he had protected me. One less indignity to be subjected to this day.

Straightening my shoulder, I walked past Lucius whose eyes were glued to me ignoring him completely. I didn’t need to be told that he had wished the worst for me but right now, I had no other choice but to remain steadfast. Not after everything I had endured, everything I had sacrificed to reach this point.

Until I achieve all of my goals and cripple the Steele and Carrell family... I will fake it until I make it.