When Angela got home, Geoffrey and Jonathan were sitting on the couch talking.
"Hey mom," Jonathan said with a wave. Geoffrey turned and gave Angela her a smile before standing up and walking over to her. He kissed her and she tried to hardest to not pull away from him. Angela felt awkward enough being married to the man she didn't love, but knowing that she had an illegitimate child with her housekeeper. This was the man she thought she loved.
"Are you alright?" Geoffrey asked. Obviously Angela's plan of not wanting him to notice didn't work and she sighed.
"Just a long day," she replied playing off what happened.
"Yeah, did you have to fire Tony?"
"What?" She asked tilting her head to look at him.
"Jonathan said you went to see him. I thought you might be talking about how he's not been doing his job the way he could be." Angela forced a smile at Jonathan.
"Jonathan, why did you say I went to Tony and Samantha's?" She questioned and he gave her a look.
"What? Was I not supposed to tell Geoffrey?" Angela shook her head looking at both of them.
"No, you could tell him. It just threw me off."
"Mommy," Emily relieved Angela of the two sets of worried eyes. Angela looked over to see her standing on the bottom step in her pajamas rubbing her eyes.
"What's wrong sweetie?" Angela picked her up and leaned against the stair rail.
"I can't sleep." She said.
"Yeah, I see that." Angela responded and kissed her head. "Come on, we'll go upstairs and I'll stay with you until you go to bed."
"Will you stay with me until I go to sleep?" Emily asked and Angela shook her head.
"I'll stay with you." They walked up the stairs and she put her in bed and sat on the edge of the bed. Angela ran her fingers over Emily's bangs and the top of her head.
"Mommy?"
"Hmmm?"
"I love you."
"I love you too." Angela took Emily's hand and held it. She sat and watched Emily fall asleep and then walked down the stairs and saw Jonathan sitting on the couch.
"Mom?" She turned around to look at him.
"Hmmm?"
"Is something going on between you and Geoffrey?"
"Nothing." She replied and he gave her a look.
"You seemed upset when I told him that you were going to talk to Tony. Is there something going on that you'd like to tell me about?" Angela looked down at him.
"No Jonathan. There isn't anything going on; and you shouldn't be worried about it. It'll be fine."
"Are you sure?" Jonathan asked. Angela looked towards the kitchen where she was sure Geoffrey was.
"Yeah." She replied and walked into the kitchen. Angela was nervous being around Geoffrey, but she didn't want him to know this or to feel any of the insecurity she felt. The last thing she wanted him to know was that their little girl wasn't his daughter. Angela sat down at the table as he washed his hands. Why wouldn't Tony want to claim his own child? Did Samantha know? They didn't want Geoffrey to know, but why? It broke her heart thinking about hurting Geoffrey as she looked at his dark hair and those sparkling eyes, but she didn't really love him. He turned around and walked over to her chair. Geoffrey leaned down and kissed her. After a few seconds, she pulled away from him and stood up. "I think I need to go take a bath. It's been a long day and a bath would be nice."
"Hurry back Angel." He smiled and she stood up.
"Where else would I go?" She asked and then walked out of the room. This was getting to be too much; she wasn't sure how much longer she could go on with this. It wasn't fair to Geoffrey and the person who was really hurting in all of this was the most innocent—Emily.
A/N: I'm sorry this chapter is so short, the next one will be a little longer.