Loving the Doctor

CHAPTER 2 – SEEING DAMON KING AGAIN

CHAPTER 2 – SEEING DAMON KING AGAIN

JESSICA HOLDING

POV

“Jess I’m telling you we’re going to make it big one day. You are going to be a lawyer and I will be a doctor we will be the next Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The It couple” Damon exclaims as he shows me his acceptance letter into UOC (University of Chicago)

Damon was a great student he skipped a couple of grades; he was super smart. Damon has been saying this for years. He was a senior now and he has been waiting for this letter for months. When I told him I wanted to be a lawyer he started looking for great schools out here where I could study Law.

Damon has always been a dreamer and I loved that about him, he had such big dreams. Damon and I have been together since I was eight years old. He was ten at the time. We have been dating for almost eight years now. Damon was your big Jock and all the girls wanted him and flirted with him all the time it was annoying, but he only had eyes for me. I loved him with all my heart.

I smiled brightly at him “Of course we will be we’ll be together till the end of time” I said

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PRESENT

“Mommy?”

“Mommy?”

“Mommy?”

I open my eyes to see my six-year-old daughter hovering over me.

I sigh. I have not thought of my ex-boyfriend in years. I guess laying in the bed my teenage bedroom. The one he used to sleepover in all the time. This room held so many good memories of our relationship. I knew I still loved him, I still loved Damon. How could I not? He was my first everything. He set the bar real high for all the other guys out there. Not that I have ever looked at another guy after Damon. He was it for me, I was just too dumb to see it at the time.

“Mommy we’re going to be late” Dianna says. I look at her shocked. My years dart to the clock on my bedside table.

Shit we were going to be late.

I jump up, my foot gets trapped in the blankets nearly meeting the floor face first.

My daughter giggles at my demise.

I playfully glare at her.

“Honey get dressed. I will make breakfast. Is the Frozen cereal fine?” I ask her

She nods before running off to her room. Her room used to be a sowing room. My mom used to make extra money by doing alterations on peoples clothing.

I sigh. I always felt bad for my daughter. After I moved away to New York I felt depressed kept thinking Damon would move on, so I applied to a university in New York. I went to NYU.

My roommate invited me to a party one thing led to another, I ended up having a one-nightstand with Adam Dianna’s dad. When his parents and my mother found out about my pregnancy we were forced into marriage.

I was married to Adam for a year, Anna was a month old, and he cheated. He no longer found me attractive. I stayed married to him until two years ago when Anna saw him cheating on me. She was with her friends while he was kissing his hot new thing. I filled for divorce the next day. Things got too much for me in New York. He would bring his mistresses and new girlfriends with him to fetch our daughter. I decided I needed to move back home. I have not been here in almost eleven years. I needed a fresh start.

I still had hope in me that Damon might still be single and hold a flame for me in his heart. Sure, I do not look the way I did eleven ago. I had baby fat in the worst places. I have nasty C-section scar reminding me of the birth of my daughter, the only good Adam has ever done is give me my daughter. Adam was an investment banker and worked all the time, if it was not work it was the girls, he barely had time for Anna. When I asked if I could move away with Anna, he did not even think about it before agreeing.

I make my way downstairs to the kitchen. We are living in my childhood home until I find something better. My mom could never sell this place it was her first and only home bought by my father. she rented it out for years. I took over renting when the last tenant moved out before the summer started. I was sleeping in childhood bedroom and Anna in mom’s old sowing room. I could not step foot in my parents’ old room, way too many memories.

The only downside to living here is living right next to my ex’s parents. I have successfully avoided them all summer. But I would bump into them at some point. I’ve yet to run into Damon.

With Ava being a stay-at-home mom meant she was home all the time. She was either in her garden or the kitchen. Ava was an amazing cook.

I got Anna’s cereal ready and went upstairs to have a quick shower while she ate. My Anna was the sweetest and most considerate little girl in the world. She understood that Adam had to work all the time. She never questioned him. She never even questioned the big move either. She took things as they came. She never questions why other kids’ parents lived together in the same room when Adam and I never shared a room. She never questioned why we moved out of our expensive apartment, and I moved us into my mom’s tiny apartment where we had to share a room.

She never questioned why her father was with a different woman every time she saw him. Which was one of the many reasons I decided to move and well Damon being one of them.

Anna and I were on time for once. We lived two blocks away from Anna’s school. Anna attended school at Lake Shore school. On the way to school a saw a small coffee shop.

“Anna mommy needs a strong cup of coffee. Let us go in there for a second” I say

She nods

I hold her hand as we cross the street. The line was not unbearably but it was a bit of a wait.

I look for the sugar. It was across the room.

I heard a bunch of the customers groaning and mumbling. I look up to see a man with his hair in a bun walking straight to the counter getting a coffee.

He must be dating the server by the kiss he gave her on the cheek. I ignore them.

“Anna wait here for me okay, I’m going to get sugar for my coffee quick” I say

She nods

I needed sugar. I walked across the room with a purpose. I got one sugar pack and put it in my cup.

I was busy putting the cap back on and making my way back to Anna when I bumped into someone, and my coffee spilled all over the persons shirt. Oh no!

“Oh my God. I’m so so sorry” I apologize for bumping into the man and well spilling my drink on him.

I look up at his shirt and then face. No freaking way. No way this is Damon. He looks bigger and well more muscular than he did when we were dating there is no way this is him.

“Damon?” I ask

He looks up at me. His brown eyes searching mine. Wow it really was him. It was Damon. He looks good. Seems the eleven years has been well on him.

“Jess…” he says with a sigh

He looked good; his hair jelled back. His beautiful brown eyes are just as amazing as I remember them

I look terrible and he just looks a whole lot better. He had a beard going on now. He looks so much like his father now it is crazy.

“Here” the server that served me earlier comes up to us and hands him a towel

He runs the towel over the stain.

“Thanks Mace” he says looking at me

She grabs it out of his hand to do it herself. Is he the guy she was kissing earlier? She is married to Damon. I look at his hand and he does not have wedding ring. Girlfriend?

Why does it bother me that he moved on, so have I. Okay I never moved on? I never loved Adam that is why I did not care about his cheating.

“Mom?” I hear Anna say

I look at my daughter. My jaw drops. How could I forget about my own daughter? Damon always had that effect on me. He made me forget everything when I was with him.

The next thing I know is Damon rushing passed me before I could even open my mouth.

“Don’t worry about Damon, he didn’t mean anything by that. I love the guy, but he can be a jackass at times. Let me get you a new cup on the house” she says

I shake my head in disbelief. Of course, she loves him. It is hard not to, I have loved the man my whole life.

She goes and gets my new cup and hands the coffee to me

“I’m sorry again about my cousin. A surgeon so he might have been late for work.” She says

Cousin? She is, his cousin? Not girl

Surgeon? He became a surgeon like he always wanted. He made it. I could not help but be proud of him. He had become the man he always wanted to be.

I did not meet Damon’s extended family growing up. I have only met his parents and his two younger brothers. Becket and I were the same age and then Axel was two years younger than me.

“I didn’t know Damon had family in Chicago” I blurt out

“You know Damon?” she asks

I shake my head “I’m sorry I need to get going, I need to get my daughter to school. Thanks for the coffee.” I say walking away.

Fuck!

I walk Anna to school, she had a lot of questions about Damon, if I knew him and if he was her new daddy. She asks if I wanted her to have a new daddy and so forth. She let it slip that she did not like her daddy and like her friend in back in New York got a new daddy she wants one. I was not sure how to answer any of her questions. I know Adam was not the best dad, but he does love his daughter. He was never late to fetch her for their once-a-month weekend sleepover. He bought her all the things she wanted. He sent me more than the required amount for child support, I knew he loved her, but he had work and a lot of it, he loved having a new woman on his arm daily as well and that never sat well with Anna. I know she blames him for breaking her family apart, but it was broken long before she was born. Adam and I never loved each other; he had a girlfriend at the time we slept together. She broke up with him when she found out he cheated on her with me. Our marriage was a joke. We never slept together, never shared a room. We were basically roommates who shared a daughter. I have always felt like a single parent when I was married. I gave birth alone because he would answer his phone. He missed the birth of his daughter because he was too busy with work.

After dropping Anna at school, I catch a cab so I could get to work. I could not be late for my first day at work.