Page 58 of Mister Daddy
She meets my eyes. “What?”
“Your thing. Disappearing. You’re like a damn Houdini.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I bark out a laugh. “So you don’t call for a year, you let me take you to bed, and then you try to leave without saying a word, but you don’t know what I’m talking about?”
“Excuse me?”
I roll my eyes. She’s really playing this up. “Did I stutter?”
“No, but you’re mistaken.”
“Whatever, Abby. Just go. Apparently it’s what you’re good at.”
“Wow, you really are a dick. How dare you?”
“I’m the dick? You’re the one trying to make your escape!”
Her eyes fall on the clothes in her hands. “Just trying to make it easier for you.”
I stand in front of her. Good thing we’re in my private room because we’d sure look like a riot to anyone else. Standing naked at two in the morning shouting at each other. How did we go from fantastic sex a few hours ago to this?
Oh, right. Abby tried to take off on me again.
“Easier?” I finally shout. “You think it’s easier to watch you walk out than to wake up next to you?”
“I don’t know, you tell me!” she responds, her voice as loud as mine.
“Seriously? You want to play this game right now? Fine. Let’s play. I asked you to keep in touch, and you never called.”
“I never called because you gave me a damn fake number!”
“You’re trying to blame me for this? Not a chance. You took off, and you didn’t even look back.”
She throws her hands up in frustration. “That’s not what happened!”
“It’s exactly what happened!”
“No,” she practically screams. “What happened is you told your assistant to give me a fake number and email address so that I couldn’t even tell you that you got me pregnant and that I had your baby!”
I open my mouth to respond, but then her words hit me.
You got me pregnant, and I had your baby. That’s what she said, right?
“Pardon me?”
I brace myself because I know I heard her right the first time.
“We have a baby, Carter.”
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Ican’t believe I said that.
This isn’t how I wanted Carter to find out about Timmy. If I’m being honest, I don’t know if Ieverwanted Carter to find out. But certainly not like this, not during a shouting match. Not when we’re clearly on different pages when it comes to what happened between us last year.