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Fuck.
The room explodes into chaos, and I feel the pain. She’s just decimated everything I know. Everything I thought I knew.
Think, Rebel, think.
“So…one of us…” I begin.
“Is Phoenix’s father? Yes,” she whispers.
“Fuck!” I whisper as all fight and anger leaves me. I grip the side of the counter because my knees suddenly feel weak. Because this revelation? Not the worst I’ve ever heard. It doesn’t fill me with horror, or disgust. It...excites me? My heart soars and I’m filled with...hope?
“Who? Which?” I whisper back, barely daring to dream.
“I don’t know.” She’s barely audible but I catch her reply and my soaring heart plummets.
“Well, there’s an easy way to fix that,” Jax harrumphs. “We need a paternity test. For all of us.”
“I don’t,” Baxter points out.
“How do we know you didn’t sleep together over Easter break when she ran away? She told us you two met then,” Jax points out.
“We didn’t sleep together. Then or ever,” Raven tells him.
“Excuse us if we don’t take your lying cheating word for it,” comes Jax’s cutting response.
My stomach churns and Raven turns green. She’s already shaking her head before any of us can respond.
“No. No way. I’m not getting a DNA test done.”
“What? You have to! You owe us this!” Jax exclaims.
“I don’t owe you anything where Phoenix is concerned,” she declares indignantly, her flight or fight mechanism seems to have kicked in and I see old Raven flaring to life; she’s a fighter.
“What?! How can you say that?! Did you do this on purpose?” Jax demands.
“What?” She’s incredulous, and I can’t say I blame her. Cool, unshakeable, unflappable Jax has completely lost his logic. He’s a mess; pacing, alternating between pinching the bridge of his nose and rubbing his jaw in agitation.
“Did you get pregnant on purpose?” he repeats.
“Oh my god, no! Why would I?”
“You said Lizzie was pregnant. Was this some sort of revenge move? Or were you trying to trap one of us?”
“Are you fucking kidding me!” she screams, enraged now. “Can you hear yourself right now? If I got pregnant on purpose to trap you, why the hell did I run and hide for four years?!”
I tear at my hair, stressed as fuck. I don’t know what I’m hearing. I don’t know who to listen to, what to believe.
Ace, the fucker. Why?
Red mist comes down and I swing for him. I just need to hurt…everyone. I can’t punch Raven, so I’ll lash out at everyone else instead.
Fuck!
One of us just became a dad. One of us has been a dad for nearly four years. We’ve missed out on so so much. How will we ever put it right? And which one of us is Phoenix’s father? Do I want it to be me? I do. I want to be Phoenix’s father.
“Fuck!” I roar, slamming my hands down on the counter top. I gotta get out of here.
“Reb-” Raven and Jax call, Jax reaching out a hand to stop me as I pass. I shove his arm out of the way.
